Thursday, October 3, 2013

A Room of My Own: Two States of Mind

walking out
of family court
at high noon
the sound of the wind
is strangely cold

one hundred days
rain or shine
I drive my shadow
around the lake
on a tandem bike

alone
on a snowy night
the heat
of my ex's skin
warms my dream

one year ago today
she demanded a divorce ...
many misspellings
slipped my notice
in these old love letters

spring sunset fades
through my attic window …
remembering
the scent
of our lovemaking

the blank page
stares at me all night
bit by bit
I photoshop my ex
off my mind

in dreams
my ex on top of me --
for a whole day
in Palestine
no one gets shot

3 comments:

  1. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    -- Epigraph, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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  2. hi! Rodrick:

    Thanks for your encouraging comment.

    Chen-ou

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