Thursday, July 1, 2010

Scar Legs/Water Toes


I breathe
You breathe when I stop
our chests rise up, and down, ribs breaking
and re-breaking like a sticky dance, 
like a thunder storm
tap, tap, tap, tap
but it doesn't actualize into lace, or jewels,
 it stomps a dreadful truth:
You and I are not talented in the way of music
our bones do nothing but chatter, 
the clanking of ice!

If two negatives make a positive 
then one of us is a blushing berry,
and the other -  a june bug, 
abrasive and senseless,
Our ground is not common.

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