A line cast, a hope followedTuesday, June 14, 2005
Funny how emptiness can be so saturating
As if I have been dammed up
Behind the absence of you.
No no, I did not forget myself,
I just cannot hear over the steady roar
Of reminders that you aren't there.
I got those new tires, see?
When I looked down my throat with a flashlight my tonsils looked like plump satin pillows!
And I had this dream about you last night.
But I shouldn't say that either.
All the words dry up before they meet the air
And so my voice has fled.
As if I have been dammed up
Behind the absence of you.
No no, I did not forget myself,
I just cannot hear over the steady roar
Of reminders that you aren't there.
I got those new tires, see?
When I looked down my throat with a flashlight my tonsils looked like plump satin pillows!
And I had this dream about you last night.
But I shouldn't say that either.
All the words dry up before they meet the air
And so my voice has fled.
