Showing posts with label when the one you thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when the one you thought. Show all posts

12/15/16

when the one you thought, finally, wouldn't, does, - Marty McConnell

where do you go? the hole in your hands
keeps getting bigger. first a pencil falls through.
then your teacup, then entire bodies

like light, like you’re made of nothing stronger
than tissue, than sugar heated and spread
to look like glass. not the real thing. not you.
your atoms sit so far apart, your lovers

walk right through. one might say, over
the top of you. but no need for that, when you
can bend around their many departures, the most
porous door. she came back. they always

come back. why not. you are not a creature
of consequences. one way to survive a fall
is to believe very strongly that you
do not have bones. another

is to watch the hole in your body grow
until you are nothing but hole, and who
doesn’t love a hole. you’re the great circle
they can write their lives inside, a flat

unused womb they can crawl into. in this
way, you are useful. this way, you can sleep
in the house that raised you.