Gasped “Yes”
when my alarm went off
like my heart
at last
exhaled
then your coffee mug
unraveled me
an undone mess
I couldn’t meet your eyes
across our kitchen table
for the last time
so out the window
a yellow leaf
clung all alone to
a December tree
I remembered
the first poem I wrote
another one-leaf-poem
before you happened
before we became
the leaver and the lost
then a big thick flock
of strong black birds
carved one way
then the other
changing their path
in the cold grey sky.
* This poem was published on the Rat's Ass Review's Love and Ensuing Madness section on 3/5/16!
http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=1070
when my alarm went off
like my heart
at last
exhaled
then your coffee mug
unraveled me
an undone mess
I couldn’t meet your eyes
across our kitchen table
for the last time
so out the window
a yellow leaf
clung all alone to
a December tree
I remembered
the first poem I wrote
another one-leaf-poem
before you happened
before we became
the leaver and the lost
then a big thick flock
of strong black birds
carved one way
then the other
changing their path
in the cold grey sky.
* This poem was published on the Rat's Ass Review's Love and Ensuing Madness section on 3/5/16!
http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=1070
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