"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. - W. B. Yeats

Monday, October 18, 2010

I've been sick, but here we go again.

It might be cold outside

But it’s warm in here

In between my two peach-fuzz breasts

Where beats my heart

Which tonight

Is pumping to excess.

Filling up the corners of my eyes with heat,

And leaving my face a ruddy red,

It is dancing an African tribal dance

That catches my bruised and bandaged toes

In rhythmic tapping.

I could run up four flights of stairs tonight,

Catapulting off the railings like

A little boy on Christmas,

Just to get to the top where

The stars might be

Just a little bit closer.

If I could fly

This is what flying might feel like—

Like the most ordinary feelings of loveliness--

Of hot blood in your ears,

And wind against your cheeks.

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