Wednesday, 11 January 2017

An Evening on Mercury

We gathered feathered kisses for a lonely cotton-moon
And blew brilliant bubbles into blue sky of desires
Did you invite those monsoons into our wedding bed that night

Dear keeper of conscience that remembered to forget
Can you forgive life’s desire to live?

Five hundred and nine stars crashed under my feet
And eight moles sprang up on a never-to-be-erased image
Did gods light incense sticks to hallow those shimmers?

Dear keeper of desires that were never to be,
Were they sparkling in my eyes, those volcanoes on my skin?

Deep liquid pools of your eyes sang an evening song
Up flowed the stream against light and rocky brooks
Was all that wetness to remain in lonely nooks?

Dear eraser of tendered destiny that has to be,
Who traced numbness to rouse it into a sweet-ache?

You ran the length of time along my arms and returned naked
To the place where we met, before wombs put us to sleep
Did you sleep-walk into heaven straight from a nightmare?

Dear prince of dreams that were to be,
Are there places that should have been touched?




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