“You are the ship. You can’t forget how to float.”
“If I am the ship, does that make you the glass bottle?”
“If I am the glass bottle, then you are also the buckling bookshelf.”
We go back and forth like this. Because no, I am not ship. I am the water. Black current biting. I am the wind as well. Whipping at a torn grey coat on the coast.
“You are a poet. Let me lick your neck.”
Tugs at my pilled sweater. I am too high for this. We are in the room that never forgets. Bodies are burdens until they are pleasured. Hands and arms and tongues and torture. Do I possess anything but this wet flesh?
“You are a woman.”
“Yes.”
“You said you lost your mind.”
“I’ve said it before.”
“You came to me like light and asked me not to lose you.”
“There are cameras for that very purpose.”
It’s a long exposure of spilling sweetened coffee on the white sheets. Of coming home quietly to a candle I forgot about. The house strung out on the scent of artificial lavender. A nap I took in the backseat baked warm by the almost winter sun.
We go for a walk. We quarrel over where we left the car.
“You parked it.”
“You saw me park it.”
“Let’s leave it. Let’s leave it.”
I am habitual. I make my dinner in the microwave on Mondays. I don’t pray over these frozen trays of whatever the fuck. It’s easy to find Christ elsewhere. Easy to call out to Jesus when our mouths are involved like this. Easy to bow my head to take it in.
“You’re wet again.”
“Yes.”
“Say it.”
“I’m wet again.”
“Open for me like one of your mother’s flowers.”
“I do not smell as sweet.”
“No. You smell like rain. Harder to hold than water.”
“The lights are still on.”
“Yes.”
The lights are still on. Humming some soft electric yellow lemon song. I’ve got a callused hand around my vocal chords. I try the harmony anyways. Collapse after the crescendo. Collapse like my creator has gotten bored of my brown hair. Of my body that tips like a cracked pitcher of room temperature tea.
“Calm yourself. You are the softest spot in this bed.”
“But I am still awake.”
“The Glass Bottle” - Keri Austin
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