2 Year Anniversary/Heat
the noise from the last parade is rising up in me
like molten rock, this last heat wave crushing my breath
this last summer, the final stick of wood placed on the pile
the stars we wish on have been dead for thousands of years
fiery explosions pre-dating me and you and us
we burn off our fingerprints in the bonfire
so we never have to suffer the same knowing of another
so no one can name us again
it’s been a long, hot disappointment
the summer around me in rapid oxidation
and you, my chronic salamander eating up the fire
you, my misguide mania, you
my unsolvable math problem, you
my Moonlight Sonata on an untuned piano, you
the long stairway, the weak heart, the tar in my lungs, the steam in the cracks of the streets
you are the bells in the air on lonely, hot Sundays
[© 2010 Sophia Nelson]
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