Where would you build your home?
Mine,
In a heart upon a hill
And so with every beat
I would find a new room
To its left
With distant yellow bulbs
That you could see
Through the window
Once it befriends the curtains,
And crusty yolk walls and basins
Covered in paint;
Crimson and vermillion
That would be smeared
Upon my hands and beneath my feet
And all across the floorboards
Would it spread;
Then I shall apologise
To myself
Again
And spend the night upon the swing
From the fairytale left open on
My childhood bed
Encasing walls coloured
Up to just below
The knees,
And I will be upset
And I will apologise
I went to the riverside yesterday
Barely evening;
It was warm
But first
It was cold
And the air from the wooden boat clung to me
Like a very very heavy coat;
The river stung and then cooled
I could feel its soft breathing
Against the cups of my ears
As it wetted my skin
Though,
My hands grow damp every so often
And then they tell my feet to do the same
Then my feet nudge my toes and they dig themselves into the earth
If only to avoid the water;
For the tips of my toes are the only thing that aren't submerged
In the branches and in the clouds
within the river
How wonderful it is!
When the forest seeps through my chest
All the way across
To the melted bolts that shape my spine;
All until
Dawn touched my forehead
And felt a fever
Underneath all of my
Shivering
I am stitched from the violet grass
That helms the meadow
Which, last night
Was in your dreams;
And so I shall grow
Ever so old
There;
As old as the steel pots
And steel pans
That carry my grandfather's initials up on their noses
Ah,
There comes sweet Heartache
And there he goes;
Flocks to the paper boat
There
With the soldier and the ballerina
There he sails upon my river
There
He floats and floats
And floats
Away
*the telephone rings in its simmering sing-song voice
as the kettle boils over and over
and the smell doesn't come
ah, there someone has picked up the phone*
*”yes?” says the cool metal of the receiver*
_____ _______ ______ ___ ___ ___ ____
*“And,
Where did you build your home?”*
*beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep. beep*
~jhinuk