Sunday, February 19, 2017
Sunnyside
Her bare breasts
spread flat onto her chest like two forgotten puddles of spilt ink, rising and
falling with the steady tempo of her lazy heart. Gentle orange from the
streetlights below soiled her face with the warmth she did not want to feel. Couldn’t
feel. The accidental boy with the blue eyes and sneaky smile who stayed two
nights too many circled the palm of her hand with an unsuspecting finger. Even
in the sea of sheets against his fiery chest she felt herself shiver. Round and
round he went, tracing the same spiral she tripped down last summer when Frankie
fell off a cliff somewhere in the forests of Washington state, and then again
in the fall when Angela was diagnosed with cancer. Fucking cancer. He nuzzled his stubbled chin into the neck he just met, dribbling
with sweat and perfume, now covered with love bruises and the kinds he will
never be able to see: the bruises that formed the mornings after the screams
clawed their way out of her narrow throat, making their desperate escape into
the black night. He painted pictures with dirty words of empty rooms where they
could be alone, and half-whispered promises of eggs in the morning. She turned
on her side and felt the depleting universe inside of her pool in the socket of
her right shoulder. He weaved his fingers into the spaces between hers and she
let him, her calloused hands unmoving. Little did he know that she did not need
strangers’ beds to be alone, and that it’s been a long time since she’s felt
the sunny side of anything.
Labels:
boys,
college,
loneliness,
losing yourself,
love
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