Your brown eyes must stop
breaking my tired heart
That cool you carry up
on your high shoulders
needs to be cracked
open like canyons on fire
My body is a cage that keeps me
from dancing with the one I love.
Your brown eyes must look
out of their cage-tower
That distance was down for
all those other offenders
but not for these green eyes
who never once broke your gaze
My limbs cannot pull out
farther across the canyon's edge
My body is a cage that keeps me
from dancing with the one I love.
Your brown eyes must turn
about face in this young lock
My keys are much too small
for your grown man's heart
My hands too raw to pull—
you must meet me half way
9-16-13
She's pulling the string
back behind her ear
pulling with fingers burnt
raw hands and broken nails
eyes tight like arrows
she's ready for your fight
Like two white checks,
opposites posed in a secrete game.
She holds her dress
between her knees
she's biting her tongue
licking back the sweat
soles grip the dirt
but she's ready for it
you give the word
she breaks the spell
Like two white checks,
opposites posed in a secrete game.
It's in her waist
the quiver full and heavy
and it's in the dip
of her soft elbow
she won't back down
you won't ask her to
Like two white checks,
opposites posed in a secrete game.
9-12-13
