A box full of “things”
Your things, the disconnected emotion
Your picture on my windowsill
Red hair still in the sink
And the far down feeling
That this is the punch-in-the-face last of it
It was your penguin pajamas
With the skis & snow shoes on them
Softness, barely fitting past this
And I listen to all of “The Weight Is A Gift”
From guitar [...]
On October 29, 2008, I read at Velvet Guerilla Cabaret, Michael Slobotzky’s reading at Unurban Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, CA. I read two pieces: “Two buttons up…” and “A box full of things…” Please visit www.adambresson.org for more poetry and writing. Hope you enjoy!
Also tagged dave, eric, los angeles, time, videoWhat you have inside of you must feel like black & dust
Temporary carrier of toes & fingernails forming in the red push
Feeding off your tissue, using your nutrition & making you swoon
Under the heavy air thick with pressure & dissent
Your family loosely hearing the echo of lost motherhood
You would have made such a terrible mother
If [...]
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