by Wanda Busse
To write, given the intent of doing something other than moving the bones; watching the paper colouring black or blue with little signs or recollecting lingering flashes of the day or organising the future (:Blue Moon on Wednesday / prepare your spell / please drink enough & not only the lemonades) not that any of it is invaluable;
one has to uncover, unravel – undress if you will, peeling the skin off your chest, reaching for your guts & burn them ‘til white flames turn cyan at best.
2. The thought of you is shallow.
I have taken my jacket off and since it’s winter, since it’s December I can feel the air around my body as if metal, still I only shiver, I don’t ache.
But to write, given the intent to mean one
mustn’t lie and to be honest
I can’t undress, it’s winter you remember.
I miss you but before thinking this I already know those three words cannot capture what I feel, how thought is so unbearably intertwined yet separated from the feeling.
I don’t know you;
warmer, since very true (not anymore).
I want to know you.
To get behind the why I have to at least take my shoes & socks off.
© Wanda Busse 2023-08-30