red rattler<\/a><\/p>\nWe began as a clumsy collision<\/p>\n
our bodies bumping and bruising with each dance of the carriage<\/p>\n
a rattling rumba\u2026 ti ti ka ti, ti ti ka ti, 1 2 & 3, now where are we?<\/p>\n
We try to make each other fit, etch ourselves upon the other<\/p>\n
We spend time in each other\u2019s daydreams, lulled by age and the lure of longings past<\/p>\n
Slipping into sleep, your edges soften and I can climb in and explore your secrets,<\/p>\n
crawl into your corners,<\/p>\n
balance on your broken edges,<\/p>\n
scramble across your scarred surfaces,<\/p>\n
I find messages of forgotten codes and lost loves<\/p>\n
a ticket, a talisman, a proof, a truth, a telling<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t let up<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are you leaving?\u201d \u2026 \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I\u2019m shaking you awake and launching into you<\/p>\n
until I\u2019m impaled, expelled, laid bare, undone\u2026<\/p>\n
This time together is peeling me like wallpaper groaning off a wall<\/p>\n
You skin me<\/p>\n
and the hot red mess of my life spills out staining the floor<\/p>\n
a murder on the dis-orient express<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You remind me that my body is a vintage carriage and I\u2019m a passenger in it, on this journey,<\/p>\n
My life is running through me like a film<\/p>\n
a stream of postcards and blurred impressions<\/p>\n
merging into a melancholic rhythm<\/p>\n
possibilities flashing past us and within us<\/p>\n
like air rushing past bodies plummeting to earth<\/p>\n
and we are dropped into each others\u2019 arms<\/p>\n
with a gasp, a jolt<\/p>\n
(where am I?)<\/p>\n
An almost death, a pleasurable preview of another place<\/p>\n
beyond the confines of this carcass<\/p>\n
outside the adolescent fumblings of flesh<\/p>\n
But no, we\u2019re not there yet<\/p>\n
This is not truth but transience<\/p>\n
We are derailed, marooned, in our fragile shells<\/p>\n
drawing a promise in the misted window and opening a can of worms<\/p>\n
Wanting<\/p>\n
Distance<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s always further than you thought\u2026<\/p>\n
And over before you know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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