Scarlet's Poetry Den "The Early Years"

Disintegrated Words (Listen to the poem in RealAudio G2)

disintegrated words -
dust in the empty coffee cup
my legs pull tighter
under the small cafe table
your face hard, untouchable

fairy shoes
leave tracks impossible to follow
wind blows
erases the footprints
gathers gale force
swirls the powder
into a violent, whipping sting

shut my eyes
to black out the storm

my pulse beats
in blue veins
pppa hammer on damp earth

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Last updated on September 6, 1999
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Image "Hands with Coffee Cup" is by Paul Hutchison of Puniho Art and is used with Permission