by Rodney Gomez
Lately I have been a gap.
Moth clouds follow me to bed.
I counted them: twenty, fifty, block, choke.
In the room where I used to sleep
a breath hangs low on the bed
and hoarsens the room.
No one knows where the air is
charged and released into the world,
but it thistles.
This is how breathing fills a house
with family: breathing to draw
the buzzing to its source
and breathing to lacquer a plugged maze.
How a house fully beamed and walled
is not a house, but a husk.
How a life in the span of a few breaths
becomes a clockless thing.
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I describe my grief as suffocating, and the image of "thistle[d]" air speaks to me - I almost choke on the intensity of my grief - the air is rough and difficult, spiked.
The last stanza too, reminds me of our house: the hollowness of it - the soul of the space has deflated.
Moth clouds follow me to bed.
I counted them: twenty, fifty, block, choke.
In the room where I used to sleep
a breath hangs low on the bed
and hoarsens the room.
No one knows where the air is
charged and released into the world,
but it thistles.
This is how breathing fills a house
with family: breathing to draw
the buzzing to its source
and breathing to lacquer a plugged maze.
How a house fully beamed and walled
is not a house, but a husk.
How a life in the span of a few breaths
becomes a clockless thing.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I describe my grief as suffocating, and the image of "thistle[d]" air speaks to me - I almost choke on the intensity of my grief - the air is rough and difficult, spiked.
The last stanza too, reminds me of our house: the hollowness of it - the soul of the space has deflated.
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