Dissolving

Dissolving

january 2019

jp

Here in am I dissolving

In night the darkness coming toward the dawn

I see light in snapshots

Of your smile

Your breath taking away from me

Your lips

Upon which I draw

My fingers entwined in strings of memory

Wrapped round the wine that sips

Through my lips

Yours, wet…

And clouds my mind in snowflakes

Gentle, warm

That float through my eyes in sparkles

Across the screen of my mind now mindless ming…

A wine soaked video…

Oh…

I love the light the falling flakes shatter like shot

Pain-steeped baptism sweeps a pleasure across my flesh…

I can take no more, so…

So,

Quietly,

I take the handle, twist, and step

Across the threshold

Into shallow snow out into night where none and no one

Interrupt the neon lights and shadows in pinks and greens and colours

And haze across my drunken eyes

Against the rain drops frozen as they fall in plucks and plicks upon my skin

Beading diamonds across the windows of my blackened truck

The glazed surface of the snow packed street

Where now sparkles and frozen mist of frozen drops, liquid clarities

Wake me to breath…

I shiver in my thin grey cotton pantaloons and pressed green plackered tshirt

Turn my cheeks to invisible sky…

And breathe…

With just less than few hours to go

Where upon I return to dawn

And a sip of coffee

From the gals who sell biscotti at the corner neon light…

Light clareness crystal majesty

In my nostrils scent of coffee roast imagined

And  I undissolve in the ether of eternity…