Memory's caged bird won't fly. These days
we are adjectives, nouns. In moments of grace
we were verbs, the secret of poems, talented.
A thin skin lies on the language. We stare
deep in the eyes of strangers, look for the doing words.
-Duffy.

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Well I’ll try to bottle you up and breathe you back like Valium. -Lisa Mitchell- Valium

Your Lyrics.

In train stations,
Running up escalators,
Fuelled by the butterflies,
In my stomach, and lower.

Barely there kisses,
Like an injection of cocaine,
Straight to the heart.
I’m not sure I can take much more.

And later, alone.
The phantom kisses,
Imprinted on my skin,
By the searching intensity of your lips.

I can still trace the shiny trail,
With my (quickening) pulse.
Tiny, invisible memories,
Like pinpricks. Unrefined poetry.

You write your lyrics on my skin.
I give them back to you in words.