We Never Speak of It by Jana Harris

Author:Jana Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504018883
Publisher: Open Road Distribution

THE INCLEMENT WEATHER OF THE HEART

Frances Stanton, Cottonwood, Idaho, 1889

Standing river edge, barefoot

on duck egg stones, this

my secret place.

I study the cool white

light of mirrored stars

floating in night ink

and drink the thin

blue milk of your face.

If only the bright

kerosene lanterns

of my insomnia

could fuel my days where

the anchor of your smile

has let me drift into the Snake’s

violent water. No child

of Luna, the moons

of Jupiter have their fix on you.

Mutiny, mutiny, Reason screams,

but repeatedly I grab

and claw for the hooks

of your mouth, though

your surly stare batters

my chest and I am sucked

into a whirlpool vortex where

water forces its way through

my mouth, backward into lungs.

I choke. How long

will the lifeless broth of you

be the only sustenance my

soul craves? Ghost

lights of river stars

bob at my feet,

giving no warmth.

I connect them like dots

into an outline of your face.

There is no accounting for

the quivering arc of your smile.

There is no accounting for

the inclement weather of the heart.

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