Rainbow Pictures, Images and PhotosRainbow Pictures, Images and Photos
Saturday, August 29, 2009 Y 8:13 AM

She stares out from glass walls
with crushed lavender in her mouth
and diamond tears
collecting in the corners of her eyes like rain
[she spends her nights like this]
crying in the absence of his arms
with only broken pencil tips
and fragile origami stars
that she crushes between her fingertips
I hate the storms.
she says, curling into the air like smoke
so wispy
that he'd all-but pushed her away.
please.
she begs,
but she's drowned out by the thunder
and he doesn't hear her empty voice.
terrified, but curious
she gathers herself in blankets,
matted teddy-bears,
and the scent of his cologne
and she roots herself in front of glass thoughts
like the flowers in her window box
the sky illuminates in black and blue like bruises
and she can feel the rumble in her breastplate
like an avalanche from her clavicle peaks
down into her ribcage valleys
and many times,
I mistake her for myself
when I see her sitting there still.
and she is my rainwater wallflower
soaking up the storm as it washes her away