Feb 22, 2010

A portrait.

I draw you in the moss-devoured
face of the lake.
Can you see my fingers
reaching out for your eye-lashes?
In the neon clouds of slate
Twitch- your eye-lids
falling like stars on my palms;
Drowning all the sky
that water once contained.

3 comments:

Mihir Balantrapu said...

nice somethin to drown in. i wonder... in the 6th line, did u mean for the reader to twitch, or for the eyes to twitch...

Mihir Balantrapu said...

nice somethin to drown in. i wonder... in the 6th line, did u mean for the reader to twitch, or for the eyes to twitch...

Shewolf said...

it means rationale to go blind. ha ha