Ghostlike and Waiting
2004-05-29 - 11:57 p.m.

She breaks apart

the mirror glistens and hardens

She melts into her reflection

a pool of mercury--she beads into

bits at the bottom of a deep glass well

Icy skin shaved to razor thin

A snowy sweetness

lives where her lips lay closed

opening only to sigh

and gasp in an underwater silence.

She lives her life waiting

watching for the moon

freezing the sun with her smile

dancing on a bed of thorns

bleeding rubys, bleeding poppies

Cuting crosses into her thighs

and tear drops into her ankles

her body a mosiac of rage

an epic of lonliness rests upon her skin

She pulls it apart like a gauze veil and

watches the pieces float soundlessly away

she is a china doll chipping, in time she will reveal

A secret thing

A glistening pearl, a silent star.

yesterday - tomorrow