LEAVING LOVE FOR MY DREAMS
Allison Jenks
Our ocean is flushed with
your face tantrums
Operatic Waves
Jet down my throat
I couldn't be with you.
Timely I swam
into the moon's inclination
with muted wisdom
Empires of darkened rooms
with low records on
my back.
Sun racked my skin into topaz
For a place
Fresh as an infants cry.
Merging purple colors of
fragrant apple lily's elope.
Sagging pines drip
with forest snow-
Undoing this stained soul
Tombing a smile with
snowflakes on its tongue,
Perking these
Earth-drowned lashes.
I'd have swam through ice water.
To get the pageantry
of fame to
canvass my blacker wounds.
Bodiless, I flew to the drumbeats
Tucked under leafy roofs
Ivies grew over your face
In my back thoughts
But your fleshless smile
remained alert.
Dodging to my well-being
I've only been alive so far
Waiting
For these turnings.
I had to have this so
Don't call my name
with the hailing sadness
of the Viola.
I can live this fine
As long as I have your smile
to clothe me when it
Simmers up this skeletoned arc.
