How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? – Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”
I’m such a Scorpio. I want to haunt you into loving me.
I want the heavy lace hem of my nightgown
to brush your bare feet with fresh dew from the moors.
I want you to spend the rest of your life
hearing my song ripping through chimneys,
my mad footsteps pacing the attic above you,
my best dress: a plume of plasma descending
the stairs to a coronation that will never happen.
I’m running my icy fingers down the length of
the verso. I’m tapping lightly
on the paper that divides us.
If you heard it, I need you to know:
I have a way to cut a door
in the poem & step through it.
It’s just this sheet that divides us.
It’s just nothing.
I see you.
You can warm me.
Will you let me in.
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