04-15-2016, 01:23 AM
ROTA FORTUNAE
Should the shadow of my thumb
scratch the mole upon your back,
will you bleed?
Anything for you
is so cliche. And besides,
that's not how metaphors work.
Here:
I'll never get used
to losing my keys.
I can lose
anything, really,
just not keys.
Everything can be replaced,
like the broken wheels of a cart.
It's just harder to replace
a lock, having to call for help
in breaking a door open,
either through force
or through artifice -- than it is, say,
to crack open a book and remember
a name, to make connections
between a memory and
an heirloom, to mark
the passage of time
and declare a certain place
home,
to sit beside a stranger
by accident and say, "Hello.
Should the shadow of my thumb
Should the shadow of my thumb
scratch the mole upon your back,
will you bleed?
Anything for you
is so cliche. And besides,
that's not how metaphors work.
Here:
I'll never get used
to losing my keys.
I can lose
anything, really,
just not keys.
Everything can be replaced,
like the broken wheels of a cart.
It's just harder to replace
a lock, having to call for help
in breaking a door open,
either through force
or through artifice -- than it is, say,
to crack open a book and remember
a name, to make connections
between a memory and
an heirloom, to mark
the passage of time
and declare a certain place
home,
to sit beside a stranger
by accident and say, "Hello.
Should the shadow of my thumb