How
many
words
for empty?
Expired
fruit,
voice dried
up, dead.
Here rests
silence, ex-
pected, un-
wanted. One
conversation,
reported, denies the
basest metaphor
no acorn, no
surgery,
no vessel, no
urn,
no bottle, no
allegory
reside in
or to
dwell in what-
ever poetic house
needs create
for this.
Were you be-
side me,
think I’d fall in
you? comforts,
rest at
breast, tear
(which-
ever way
read it works)
ripping a-
cross touch
wipe (tear) gone.
Think you’d hold
me? the al-
most no-
things whisper bridge
the place
where waters
yearn
to meet (but
it is, met,
it is, already.)
Think this
is how
it’d go? But
no. You do
not, not, not, go.
Despair, you
stay, keep
house, set
up room,
board, re-
pair stained
cheap south
of my heart, ves-
sel while I
cling at absence
like some wait
that won’t.
What’s did
to will but don’t?
We find an anagram
of heart, or false
rhyme that we hold
onto: say: hard,
or, whisper,
or, hold,
or, sorrow,
or, I miss you;
and “How can you?”
and it’s easy in lapse
of you, this re-
lapse of
you. To borrow
a simile
- but no,
an assembly -
of legions,
but no;
what space
there is be-
tween is
not loaned to
the whims
of grammer:
keep an accent a-
bove the door,
and decree an
ellipsis…to our stops,
ongoing
for now
for ever
for
more.
© 2012 – Mark A. Douglas – All Rights Reserved
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