“Snowflakes in Your Hair” | Mahdi Khamseh | Poetry

Snowflakes in Your Hair

Mahdi Khamseh

The snow murmuring above the pavement Chlorophyll laughter bleached in white As I stumble past the orchard The forest heaves with my fading breath

Looking back Shoulders glancing crescent moons Into the twenty-sixth phase of sorrow Pleads another case with me

Silence shouts into my ears As it pulls me into its abyss And leaves me tainted with Diamond hairs

The slow whispers Cutting into the clouds Forcing another droplet of white blood To perturb you from your sleep

Sharp glances Bite at my window My dwelling has lost its wood from your leaving You took a tree and left A splinter

The gum wrappers around my face Chain me to a voice which I cannot bear to hear As I can do nothing but chew And chew Until I spit myself out of Your eyes

But as the snow builds up Pink plaque upon your cheeks I push your plague further into my lungs And breathe with your sight In mind

You caress the sunset And feast the dawn Your lips warm the horizon But now I take a step away from a step never taken at all

Wine bottles stuck on my words Drunken letters dancing amid sentences said And unsaid

I wait for you to come and talk with me but the wind Turns rancid and you Linger away