Fragment (v.2). July 28, 2009

Finish with a fragment.
Claim no sense from this
sentence through structure.
Choke on the breath
you’d follow with the bright side
of this shadow.
–The better place you know exists,
the second chance I can’t know
they can’t find.–
Swallow how
you know them when I share my memories,
you feel their presence, given they’re with me.
Allow their deaths finality,
the kind it kills me to endure.
Cut apart [...]

Do Not Resuscitate (v.1). July 23, 2009

We keep injecting the distance
between June and December.
Wait long enough, I won’t remember
I’m not calling you
                                                I do
dial the phone, dig at the scab.
When you don’t answer,
I can wait another month, –
three, maybe. I can keep at bay
the way your heartbeat played
an s.o.s. against my chest, forget
the CPR I never learned.
Leaving remains the privilege
I prefer unearned. I [...]