Sunday, May 12, 2013

Demolition/Our Town revised


A webbed maze of arrows
I drew this
with dying blue lines
            Dry erase markers can be wands

He whispered to me, circling in green, "this is my house."
                                                I claimed the whiteboard flat above his.

            We sketched staircases
furniture, trap doors, and attics
                                    Dry erase markers can be hammers

            His pen crafted
bald-headed neighbors, a factory,
                                    as I curled the smoke.

           
                                    Waving our markers, we could build anythinganything.

So I gave him feet to run and walk-on               & jump-on,
wings
to soar
on

            He brought his green in a downward curve, and I slid over to Beside-Him


Under a green moon
                                    Blue stars
                                                            Erasure
                                                                        My mistake (my mistakes)
                                                (he rubbed off with the pad) I trusted
(of his thumb) my heart with him.
                                               
His knuckle curved    up the green line I had slid down
                                                            And my stacked sticks of a body  crumpled
Until         slowly                        belatedly
                                                I wiped my thumb from his shoes to his wings,
And     hesitant,             
            I went over his face

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