Drip
Drip
The revelations ooze out
The face keeps moving while the mouth
Stages its hunger strike
The feet keep moving while the legs rotate
Counterclock wise
The spoon spins in the bowl
Like the time you told her you loved her.
And she let you tell her.
And you let the words drip out.
Saving your emotions for a book of haiku
Haiku baby you screamed
She snickered god bless you
But she didn't know
The shoes were gyrating
The medicine wiggling in the doctors cabinet
While his pen danced across the
Pink pages of your face
Written easy for reference.
He wrote the most violent of sonnets
She didn't even see the ink drip down you cheeks
She never knew the dichotomy....
White socks under tuxedo pant
Sweatpants under power tie
Slippers under evening gown
Leopard print scully under my thinking cap.
Jireh -
