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breathe deepbreathe deep.breathe deep by *ohsostarryeyed
breathe it shallowly if you need to,
if filling your lungs to bursting
is too much,
too soon;
but breathe the depth-
of ocean,
of history,
of tree roots
and ethnic roots
and the roots planted by love.
breathe deep
and the orgiastic fullness
it gives the empty shell
you try so hard to stuff
but nothing sticks;
breathe deep
because deep is star-soaked
with constellations,
desperate with creeping beauty
like attar and trellis
and the june moon.
this is how you keep her.
this is how you say,
this is our permanent address.
this is how you say i love you
with something more than words.
between two months is two shorti like to think of you.between two months is two short by *ohsostarryeyed
sometimes you are a butterfly,
wings stretched back
in long arcs,
bones breaking into flight
behind your protruding chest-
you are beautiful.
i find myself sinking
into the irish kills in your eyes,
the gaps in your smile.
i touch the cauterised cuts
sealed by metal and fire
on the backs of your swollen knuckles
and kiss your crooked lips.
in two months you will leave.
in the wake of st. valentine's sacrifice,
i will send my heart to war with you.
look beneath your pillow
and find it there;
look in the space between your walls
and there it will be;
look within your chest, beside your own heart
and
the first poem i wrote since i told you i love youthe star-soaked stainsthe first poem i wrote since i told you i love you by *ohsostarryeyed
that covered our nudity
gives way at last
to a tequila sunrise,
so low in the sky;
it's still bright enough
to sting my eyes,
and yet i can't bring myself
to hate it.
your body next to mine,
every effort is made
to move a heavy limb
closer
because any space
we have
is space i don't want.
i am sometimes humbled
by my feelings,
the way they swell
in my throat
just how the ocean
tastes the shore.
there is always something new
to find hidden in my heart,
summoned by my words,
or the salt of your skin
wearing like wind on shale
against mine.
i don't think i can ever tell you
i love you enough.
i
Sta.sh
