Literature
2006
It's a cut that still aches, heated to the touch, throbbing under prying fingers
never healing, picking the scab and eating that
sanguine communion wafer
and when I'm on my knees, I'm recalling the last time-
a knee bump, a smile, an encounter
I begin to wonder if I am a masochist,
chest aching with a hollow pounding
devotion to this unknown
and when I look at you, I can feel it
caressing my heart, stabbing my chest
and you're unawares of the skirmish within me
a nod and a grin,
and an atomic nuke
radiating out all of my love
into the fallout of whatever logic had remained within myself.