Gray
You used the north of your tongue
to speak cold words to me. You spoke
in the manner of December
with no warm-lit candles in the
whole black sky. You caused
a great night’s chill. You made
my body crackle and skid like
wind-burned leaves to music.
You made me shiver
like looming dry sticks
that scratch the desolate
sky. Your curling shadows
harvest only gray. I dreamt
you have no dreams
so I light a candle for you with
fire scents of orange and
yellow. I dream beyond you
and sway before the flame.
I know you smell my match. I know
you recognize this even now, this
warm blur emerging for a
new long night. I know
you will soften when the light begins
and I know you will return. I know
you’ll want to hold me
in your old ghostly arms
to fend off everything
I fear.
I fear.
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