The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 11/8/2008) [View All]

[RetroLounge]

Dear Jealousy

I know I said I hated you
      and left you years ago,

but I have been missing
      that something we had, call it

your heat. Meet me again
      in the desert. Come to the place

where I wrote that name
      in white quartz on the slope.

Remember how you drew me
      higher up the mesa, stumbling

through twists of unspurnable roots,
      pebbles skidding underfoot, how

into thin air you lifted me.
      I remember now to hold

my breath as I press into
      the embrace of those

who have gone into their lives without me.
      Once you held me so

firmly, dipped over the open
      view, your breath a steady

flame in my face
      and I knew I couldn't fall.

Ellen Andolsek

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:hi:

RL