Tonight

 

Tonight

we’ll put cucumber hats

on our cucumber heads

and cucumber pads

over cucumber eyes

we’ll drink cucumber wine

and eat cucumber pie

under slices of light

we’ll get cucumber high

then all that we own

will turn green

and then white

and we’ll run through our dreams

into cucumber night.

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Wait

Today our house

Our little nest

Filled with pain

Like water filling Thai houses

to the brim.

Our lungs and hearts filled up with

Hurt and hope lost.

We looked for escape

and saw only our possessions;

all the things that made us who we are

swamping us with their normality.

There was no way to float to safety.

So before you came,

I sat in the garden

in the wooden chair

The only chair that wasn’t wet

And waited to find out

If you still loved me.

And still there were things:

A reminder of the fireworks,

The barbecue covered and dry,

the summer that hadn’t yet come. 

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