Mark Metcalfe - "Sisyphus II", Copper Plate Etching
Copyright 2010. Image appears by permission of the artist.
______________________
____________________________________________

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Recent Free-Write

Currently Untitled

The other night my baby said,
"If one day you go crazy in the head,
taking my life,
it would've been worthwhile
to say I was once your wife."

Even if our love's shade grows faded,
& we, bitter, old, or jaded,
must know fits of bold justice,
as our love will balance beautiful as such:
superlative eternal, simply put: just too much.

We took the dive, deciding to risk dying nightly
in our dire dirty state of inputting soot to our veins,
a desirous drive on the cliffside ledge,
leaning off the edge of a razor.
We weakened emblazoned ragers

who waged wars against this world
while naked, fighting out the womb.
We who took to explosive bombs blooming
& our two hearts till entombed, went ticking in time.
I breathe in her lungs. She breathes back into mine.