pallor

By anaksunamun









































some dead.
just the ghost of a dead.


All they want is to just lie down with you, you lie down and they lie in your body. They learn to clench their fingers in time with yours, to stare at the dawn colored ceiling as you do. The sound you make inside your mouth is like a heat inside theirs. They are shaking with the sound of you, the bouncing of your bloodbeat, they raise their chest slow , slow like blue noise coming down the winding of the stairs, wherever there is lonely.

These dead have eyes like the morning moon, you were the most beautiful mirror ever made; wherever there is lonely, there is only you to them. Place them in the light of the window and proceed about the day.






















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Copyright 2015 anaksunamun
Published on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Poetic-Realm On Monday, October 26, 2020, Poetic-Realm (258)By person wrote:

    Wish you hadn't stopped posting. Then again wish I hadn't also.

  • Cassette On Tuesday, January 2, 2018, Cassette (1144)By person wrote:

    this feels like living vicariously through others... stunning piece.

  • Lab Rat On Monday, January 4, 2016, Lab Rat (131)By person wrote:

    "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." ~ George Elliot

  • Phalanx On Monday, June 29, 2015, Phalanx (677)By person wrote:

    Let there be light.

  • Magdalena On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Magdalena (616)By person wrote:

    I came in just to comment on this captivating piece of writing... I lay in my bed and at times I would feel the cold pierce my pores and the brush of breath against my hair, in my alone-ness. I had a dream once that I have to tell you about.. I connected with your wonderful writing my beautiful friend.

  • TropicalSnowstorm On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, TropicalSnowstorm (1703)By person wrote:

    I especially love the line "you were the most beautiful mirror ever made" - that seems to encapsulate the whole of this piece. Ciao, T/S Scholar

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