“Huh” - Poetica Spontenaium
(Inspired by a found matchbook from Shiraku Restaurant, New York circa 1997)
There were all these things he said to me.
And too many coarsities said in return
And in discourse and dialogue
And volume and gestures
We could not come to agreement.
So we agreed not to.
We shrugged into each other
Resigned to be we
Without parity in judgement to the other.
We both stubborn and needing,
Pressing and imploding
Dragged each other’s hearts under our snappish breaths.
We left each other, that time, in boney silence.
The next morning I asked him
“Are you still mad at me?”
A kiss told me that he was not.
Was it wrong for me to not forgive him until now
When I can’t recall why we ever fought.
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