Red Moleskine Art Show: Chapter 1
Tag: loss
Red Moleskine Art Show: Chapter 1
Red Moleskine Art Show: Chapter 1
Red Moleskine Art Show: Chapter 1
Sapling
She is standing before me in
Some wretched sharp-boned pose. Dreams shift-
Ing light pierces translucent thin,
shrink-wrapped skin. Her glorious grin
–
Dispossessed by fraught, frightened eyes.
Now, with thoughts obsessions first
Caress, each part of me that dies
Sees another path; the less cursed.
–
Stumbling in my own dark, bleak cor-
Ridors I fiercely hunt in love’s slow,
Impotent style after hope or
Hope’s trailing, tragic shadow.
Conversation
I don’t know if we can be friends anymore, I said.
Oh, why is that? She said.
Well there’s a problem, I said.
And what is that? She said.
I love you, I said.
Oh, she said.
Oh, I said.
Oh, she said,
Again.
I said oh again, too.
We had both said oh twice.
I have ruined our friendship, I said.
No you haven’t, she said.
Yes I have, I said.
I don’t think you have, she said.
Oh? I said
Do you love me? I said.
Does it matter? she said.
It might be quite important, I said.
Do you want to know now? She said.
If you wouldn’t mind, I said.
I have to go, she said.
Oh, I said.
I took that as a no, I said.
Oh, she said.
I just don’t…, she said.
Are you going to go? I said.
She didn’t say
And then turned and walked away.