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song of the mattress


 she slept, wrinkled and small
 on satin sheets, a band-aide covering her mattress,
 knees tucked tightly beneath her chin
 and legs pressed against her breasts
 as if waiting for a gigantic splash when she hit the water
 
 motionless, she dreamed of burgundy and peaches from georgia
 and hoped to drive to smyrna on sunday
 two hundred and thirteen miles, south and mostly straight
 funny how juice spilled from a peach onto burgundy satin
 looks like blood
 
 it was raining when it happened but that isn’t important
 she would have loved the rain on any other day
 and recorded it on her already overcrowded ‘to do’ list
 but today, peaches and burgundy satin sheets
 embezzled her sleeping mind
 and kept the rain out
 
 when she rolled over, the creaking sound from overworked coils
 reminded her of that regretful night in april
 when hidden within the box spring,
 tornadoes of metal circles pushed hard
 against white pine
 collapsing under the weight of two dissimilar bodies
 before exploding again before collapsing
 again before exploding again
 
 in unison,
 complaining springs beneath her body screamed for silence
 while she battled fiercely to hold on to consciousness
 as the bulldozer push of his weight drove her deeper into oblivion
 
 dazed, her dream made a wide right turn at the intersection
 where she thought of headlights and honking horns
 spinning clockwise like a fleeting second hand
 with no intention to stop until the minutes all ran dry
 
 plums, swollen and tender—
 purple patches that promised to never heal—
 caused her to tighten the grip on her own body
 as she trembled and began to sob loudly
 drowning out the erratic song of the mattress
 
 he would not stop until she made him stop…abruptly
 the noise was loud but for only a second
 funny how blood mixed with peach juice on burgundy sheets
 still looks like blood
 the song of the mattress was silenced

tolbert
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