Best Loveapril Poems
It's...
irrelevant
we're two stories, picture books rubbed raw and torn pages, he's
ripped
up the middle, down the lines of his face on the left and his right ear
dangles
over my toes when midnight falls, I watch him, inconspicuous, listen to my sleep.
I'm breathing, I'm attacked by May and I used to know lavender beneath the fog, I used to
know dawn, I blanketed myself with scratches and wrote love letters to April when I missed
the rain...
but now I write letters to him, hoping, somewhere, my handwriting can tattoo his skin.
He...
feels...
sometimes, I think it's love, that's what he's termed this undiluted destruction of me and
it's a shame I didn't stain him, it's a shame my blood doesn't laugh at him from his
palms, it's a
shame
I don't crawl over him like fleas at midnight, biting, itching and tearing him to shreds...
it's a shame I still make him smile.
I know the shape of Tuesday evening, she turns sideways beneath the moon, and my thighs
become blue with memories and reflections but I leave the window open to confuse tomorrow
I crack the glass and pray I don't bleed, I...
slice through sunlight, I'm
tired
and he's sleeping, his eyes are always closed....
and I whisper to Wednesday to steal his eyelashes, I cry to April to blow them to me and I
promised, I promised Thursday I'd make these wishes....
but I don't know
how to collect.
He's ineffectual as long as I'm cold, he's problematic and I sweat, swatting at headlights
and curling under blankets, I'm trying to fool myself but
my eyes don't close...
and I've spit on last January, indignant in her youth, she'll never hear the screaming
pain of forgiveness...
and my mouth
won't
close, my teeth won't crash and creek and grind him down...
not this close to May, anyway, not this close to
Wednesday.
She's waiting for April
To come with her spring-songs,
Like us, waiting aimlessly:
Under our green tree,
Seeking March’s relief
And comfort like some meek folks!
Now, before our reluctant eyes,
March has died,
Through the comings and goings
Of a laughing sun –
April has come
With a deep-sucking bee!
Now, the bee sucks
All the nectar
Of the flowers in her garden:
Sucking by April’s night,
The night’s face
Honeyed by a moon;
Her flowers pollinate eagerly,
And the bee has buzzed away,
She still waits for April under the tree!
April in the morning
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I get April in the morning, not just once a year
Her grandeur takes my breath away
The sight of her so dear
My whole world gets much brighter
The birds and butterflies dance and sing
The stage is set five days a week
My heart is filled with spring
The clouds doth part the sun shines through
All worries go their way
I'm happy not just once a year
Because April always starts my day.