Polka Dot Leigh Bowery Painting, in Watercolour, 2017 |
Monday, May 29, 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Sleeping With You
your eyelashes are still black and gold
even when I’m so scared i don’t know
what to do
your chin and cheeks and nose are still so quiet
when you sleep so deeply i get scared,
i get scared.
i check your chest to make sure
and i feel like dying right now just to
postpone my awakening
your hair points in the middle like a v
they call it a widows peak
and sometimes when you sleep i want to cut it off
because the idea of being your widow
makes me weep
makes me feel
too weak
inside it’s awakening.
(written for Andrea Hawkins (my now wife) in 2015).
Labels:
2015,
Andrea Hawkins,
ellie anglin,
love,
love poem,
poem,
poetry
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