Slippery

Slippery

Janie Rainer

Not high, just spread out

A little elastic

Watery//

Lights like when you

Press your palms into

Your eyes//

I like a heartbeat

On mine

Someone

Warm

Touching me

It’s gentle//

But it’s not mine and

I wish he wouldn’t

She is right there, sand

In my eyes//

I think about my fingertip

On his forehead

His hair

There’s a change gonna come

I don’t know where or when//

I’m slippery

Past where others can’t squeeze through

But I can lie because it feels like truth

Everything is truth I say it, it is

I’m simple//

Arm around my waist

Head in my lap

Breath in my heart

I don’t even want this

I Just want something I

I’m sorry//

Lights flashing and

Bass in my drums

Wide swollen eyes

Tongue raw

Catching his eyes

Is he looking at me?

Wouldn’t that be a thought

Not the one wrapped around me

The one from time gone by

Does time return if you let it go//

Too slippery

Now I’m forgetting the dreams I had

But it doesn’t hurt to let it fall

It’s a relief

But then it feels like I skipped a step

No return

Because time won’t//

I didn’t know heads were supposed to fit under ribs like this

Fade Away - Grace Dickerson