Help | About | Suggestions | Alms | Chat [0] | Users [0] | Log In | Join
 Search:
Poem: Submit | Random | Best | Worst | Recent | Comments   

missing time (revised) (Free verse) by Bill Z Bub
I awake with premonition. panicked hand skids for paperscrap to record the last moments of this dream of missing time. my bare wrist crossed with hers faded blanket bunched arm jackknifed round the front pale fingers placed like the careful arrangement of a Japanese print as she breathes through chapped lips so perfect. tender lids darkened, in sleep. you seem new. I want to touch with one finger the soft swell under your chin when you've lost all rigidity no more angles of attack with your ear to the pillow. cold wind from the window streams down the wall and in the madness of morning someone's cat jabs her black paws through a gap in the door. can I peel away day to lay bare the clutched core? there's no time there's no time. you're driving home today. I blink twice and you're gone. in my head like a song.

Back to poem details

xxx67.172.190.2530January 15, 2007 9:24 PM PST
Anonymous70.29.75.16510May 12, 2006 6:37 PM PDT
Anonymous80.178.102.341May 19, 2004 11:26 AM PDT
INTRANSIT204.110.225.25410September 7, 2003 5:04 PM PDT
<~>64.252.173.1009September 6, 2003 8:47 PM PDT
http://bandgeek216.195.144.1319September 6, 2003 4:59 PM PDT



Track and Plan your submissions ; Read some Comics ; Get Paid for your Poetry
PoemRanker Copyright © 2001 - 2024 - kaolin fire - All Rights Reserved
All poems Copyright © their respective authors
An internet tradition since June 9, 2001