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There is

An abacus

Counting sense and nonsense

On the high cheeks of a woman

Whose done saying what she’s told

The photographer

Catches her unease

In the shape of her mouth

It would taste of raspberry, that’s obvious

At night, the crystal of your half filled glass shines

Ice melting slow like peeling clothes

Staring at naked ghosts with their hands up

Sexing on dirty carpets with clean minds

Watching flashbacks of regrets and pleasure

Idling trucks melting snow with their hung over breath

If you were a pill I’d O.D. on your potency

Skipping heartbeat, chasing down roads, your diminishing form

You left one day intact and never returned

Sending a doppelgänger

A confidence artist, in your stead

Who told me; I like your eyes they’re untamed

With a paper tongue and windscreen brow

Wiping away the rain, that endlessly fell

We must get used to death

In each pause, in the rhythm

I touched your skin

And thought of new England apples

The first taste

Belief comes last

Use your imagination

Can you see me?

I’m standing waist deep

Waiting for you to read my mind

Like you did once with the alacrity of an gymnast

In the throes of passion

Braile

Morse code

Signs and wonders

Photos over exposed

Ringing phones in the night

Knowing the destination in your fingers and finding

Without map or lights switched on

Blacking out cries

To be found

Oh god

To be found again

By you

15 Replies to “Waiting for you to read my mind”

  1. This:

    “If you were a pill I’d O.D. on your potency

    Skipping heartbeat, chasing down roads, your diminishing form

    You left one day intact and never returned

    Sending a doppelgänger

    A confidence artist, in your stead

    Who told me; I like your eyes they’re untamed

    With a paper tongue and windscreen brow”

    And this:

    “Oh god

    To be found again

    By you”

    This is flawless. Not a word is out of place–everything is where it needs to be and says what it should say. This is superb writing, Candice.

  2. When I read the words ‘windscreen brow’ I immediately thought of the eyebrows moving back and forth like little windscreen wipers ! Isn’t that just weird 🙂

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