6 Feet Apart

An unforgiving mockingbird song
Echoless in the dead of night
The air is stifled and still
Rain clouds, oppressive downy pillows
Weigh down
On our pin-drop silent towns
Folks tucked hard
Breath-holding sanity
Hoard it like TP
I wish I could get these clouds off of me

Tell me I’m a breathing machine
Expose the stars,
Forgive this pause
Exhale into the distancing
Own the space
Where you expel your dirty air
What kind of grounded do you want to be?
Playing in it, laying in it, complaining in it?
Taking a minute?

This stillness is a buzzing whisper
With so much to consider
Veils that muffle the murmur
Unknown trails that lead into summer
The rights you have left
The impatience and doubt set adrift
Unseen currents of atmosphere
Shifting between us
The space that suffocates
The oppression of no embrace

The wind: a breath, a current

A breath

went for a walk

with two gallivanting fingers

up and down

her spine

That doormat

sure can hold on tight

when the wind

comes from behind

  

A breath

that couldn’t talk

through pillows and trachea hugs,

exhaled in tears

and darkened stratospheres,

that muffled wind

who can bend and ascend

to the heights of beanstalks

 

Some foreign breath

that blows wind chimes

carries, like rivers,

the silence

and disseminates

the seeds

much like dandelion weeds

to a distant resting place

for unspoken violence

 

The wind: a breath, a current

that strips trees or tickles noses,

waves flags,

shifts sand,

and is a collection

of the sighs

of millions of years’ toil

Spectral Wisp

If only

I could have

your breath

on my ear

panting hot

but it’s not.

How menthol wintry

shiver shimmery

you sigh

 

Shudder stroke

tickle-drip

vapor trickle

finger tip

encircling

spectral wisp

hulaing

my ivory hips

  

I feel you

brush my skin

surge through

my hair

I reach

into the space

around me

You are not there

 

Saddling the frigid

breeze you blow

gravitating

amidst

the ghastly glow

Ascendancy!

you came

for me

 

Hover always

flitter floating

telekinetic

anemic arctic

taunt me

want me

haunt me

ungraspable

sentimentality.