Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Blue light


Blue light


By Sil 

Hereford hospital 11th of March, 2021


Under the blue light 

You fold and unfold 

Flesh origami

Five pounds of flailing limbs 

Articulated toes

What is incomplete remains unarticulated  

Life juts upward 

Like it has a plan

A diaphragmatic drum 

Triumphantly pounding 

against miniature ribs 

Through translucent plastic 

I am looking 

At a blueprint of the future

fully arrived, yet half-known 

Your face is turned away 

And your eyes swim in darkness 

So I read you hunger backwards

In your breath 

Fanning fingers 

That curl around our ancestral past

I read your stirring 

The arching of your back 

Your your moon-shaped body has a deep gravity 

And mine is but a giant satellite tuned to a single frequency

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