—YOU WERE BIGGER AND BRIGHTER THAN THE SNOW

 

undeniably November

  

 

outside the leaves and other dead detritus scuttle along resembling a charcuterie board gone to waste have you seen it or are you riding the most beautiful carousel in the world around the rim of a volcano i bet there are secrets you’ve never told a soul that they swoosh like a bad batch of gazpacho in your otherwise empty belly or maybe it’s just me thinking of when i think too much my teeth stretch and run laps miserable and nostalgic when i think of you the air tastes dyslexic when i think of  you my mind’s tornado wolfs down a tsunami burrito and the dead things make up songs that slur my name this year is a tired fox with withered molars so i’m walking backwards on a bed of broken glass beneath my frozen toes it turns such an impressive shade of ruby yet i can’t feel a thing other than the sting of your slap slap slap your diamond ring papercutting skin and that abrupt goodbye you left like a bag of dogshit on fire at my feet