Thursday, April 17, 2025

4/17/25: hauntings

 Today's poem prompt. The poem I want to share with you is by Mina Loy.

sure, the good times-
they don't stop. permanent
joyride: cue the theme song.

in this unbroken circle
light a candle in the middle
cut our hands to trade our
humors-make this bond complete.

tied to one another for an eternity.
invoking the spirit realm, another
dimension, imprinting ourselves on
each other's homes.

the bond forged
leaves a spectral version of the 
other, somewhere in the kitchen.
less freedom to roam-only to wait.
appearing infrequently. reminders in
a thumb burned by steam or a broken
dish. silent adjudicator. no judgement

forthcoming. documenting the rot
of the rest of our lives. with and without
you and me. watching the traffic of our
lives and living through the other.

i should pick up the phone. i should send
you a text message. i should write you a
letter. but i probably won't
i'll just get the funny feeling you're
here whenever i ruin another meal.
with each broken glass, each failure
of knife acrobatics, we'll be back where
we started. 

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