leaving is not enough

[be_themoon]

Mom is home! This is wonderful. Have some poetry, and then I am Off To Bed, as I must be at school tomorrow, and then do all my reading parts which I need to actually memorize at choir, and I also need to sign up for fall classes. <333 oh f-list, how you restore my faith in humanity!

Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell by Marty McConnell

leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change the locks
even on the house he’s never
visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
you have an apartment
just your size. a bathtub
full of tea. a heart the size
of Arizona, but not nearly
so arid. don’t wish away
your cracked past, your
crooked toes, your problems
are papier mache puppets
you made or bought because the vendor
at the market was so compelling you just
had to have them. you had to have him.
and you did. and now you pull down
the bridge between your houses,
you make him call before
he visits, you take a lover
for granted, you take
a lover who looks at you
like maybe you are magic. make
the first bottle you consume
in this place a relic. place it
on whatever altar you fashion
with a knife and five cranberries.
don’t lose too much weight.
stupid girls are always trying
to disappear as revenge. and you
are not stupid. you loved a man
with more hands than a parade
of beggars, and here you stand. heart
like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
heart leaking something so strong
they can smell it in the street.

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

oh, i like that :D

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

oooh. preeetty.

[sagee-x3.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love that poem.

p.s. That goes for pretty much all the poetry you post. I love every single one of them.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is really really Frida (it's all about her life! and those last lines! so her! four-poster bed, canvas, something so strong they can smell it in the street). Just wonderful. If you ever have the chance, take a look at her published diary. It's gorgeous. oh frida kahlo! <3

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

poetry is a most fabulous thing!

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

:D

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

thanks! I love poetry a lot a lot a lot. I've got all my bookmarked poetry tagged here if you don't want to wait on me to sift through my poetry and post some. :P

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

after this poem, I want to take a look at that diary! it is such a beautiful poem, omg.