The Art of Falling by Kim Moore

Author:Kim Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seren
Published: 2016-04-11T15:53:06+00:00

I Know

I know this bus stop, the green and flaking paint of it.

I know this road I have to cross, I know the traffic

rushing past. I know these seven steps. I know

this door, its weight, its tone as it speaks in anger.

I know this hallway, the hexagon tiles, red and black

and red and black. I know this second door.

I know what it is for the body to open one door

then the other while the heart stays silent.

I know these floorboards. I know what it is

to lie here, the body like a boat, caught by its heels

in a harbour. I know what it is to kneel here

as if in prayer, if prayers were ever full of tears.

Ten years on, it’s almost heady to look back,

see myself kneeling on the floor, watching

the hysterical skittering of the phone.

His voice, trapped and low: pick up the phone.

You’d better pick up the fucking phone.

I know the top of my head, I know my shoulders,

can see how everything I knew is scattered

across the floor, like love and all the weight of it.

I know this room. I know that sofa, the orange of it,

its patient waiting. I know how it feels to walk

backwards into it. I know this place. I leave my self

down there, kneeling, still alone.

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