your valentine is wordless tonight
breaths break on her tongue,
she is speechless, words clattering
on her mouth.
and nighttime fed on that open mouth:
moonlight like peach juice
and cotton, needling
its way through your thorough lashes,
camels eyes, sandy eyes
but no sandman of sweet sleep
to sweep the daylight and the whys --
the white of the eye shines only in fear
and YOU SEE ME in windowlight --
do you see your valentine's love
clouded tonight, her teeth
sucking on that peachy skin.
(14/02/2017)
YOU ARE READING
THE OCEAN
Poetry'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and...
