| I love the way you always change
Makes me feel slow, immobile Like ovserving a hummingbird I conceale my humanity And vulnerability I love the way your mouth moves Forming words Like all the kids who kiss and eat at school Your tiny teeth Arranged in a flock of birds, Always changing, always kinetic, always potential Like a long, perpetual blink. I love the way you compare everything to ants Wild, structured, unique-- You're almost not human But something about you makes you more human Than the rest of us You revel in it, you know you hold it. I'd be satisfied to sit next to you And let your intensity numb my fingertips, Press my mind against your jawline, Or study the fall of your eyelashes. You're always expiring and respiring I watched you morph into a new creature Every time the sun moved I carefully memorized each one I'm desperately trying to remember the way your laugh sounds But I can feel the blank spaces in my memory, Like a child tonguing a missing tooth Tu me manque. Aug 2004 |
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