Spineless

by Melpomene   Oct 28, 2012


You are

The Queensland cane fields I keep
finger painting. Feathered flowers, honeysuckle,
wheat and the soft pastels found in Romanticism.
I stopped thinking you were sweet when I started
savouring your touch like the last banana slice in a
sugar filled yogurt. You were the empty highways
between green grass and cows, the kind we suddenly
became tangled on. You are the scent of paint;
mango trees, bush bees because those are the
only kind you're not allergic to.

I am

The cane toads sucking the sweetness
from your decay. An afternoon zephyr, cinnamon,
stale oats and the confusion found in abstraction.
I stopped thinking you were sour when I became
hungry for the sweet perfume that was your neck. I am
the low fat everything that faded the softness of my
curves, an expiry date, spilt milk and the red lights that
have kept us from designing an atlas together.
I was the vanilla shower gel washing the paint
from the canvas of your body, a cyclone,
a reaction and

tombstones inscribed with these
spineless poems.

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  • 10 years ago

    by Yakari Gabriel

    Where is that damn poem that said again "somewhere etc etc I lost my spine" I've been looking for it for ages

  • 11 years ago

    by Jenni Marie

    Ohhhhhhh Lissa (...We WILL get used to that new name damn it!)

    How your poetry always moves me!

    I don't have much free time so I'm going to come back with a proper comment, but for now I will say that you always blow me away and improve with every single piece that you write!

  • 11 years ago

    by Yakari Gabriel

    <3 <3 <3

    Damn..

  • 11 years ago

    by HOLLY ARMER

    So much to love in this but the stand out line for me was the I am.....the confusion found in abstraction. Dang, I don't even know....just beautifully written. I just keep reading it over and over and over!!!

  • 11 years ago

    by Yakari Gabriel

    Ugh the urge to spill my heart out and comment all the heap of emotion this made me feel

    but since you forgot I exist

    I won't.

    congrats on a very deserved win

    YO TE LO DIJEEEEEEEEEEEEEE QUE ME IBAS OLVIDAAAARRRR...TE LO ADVERTI A TI MY GIRL

    (nobody tell her what this means...google it)

    muah

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