In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
There is a girl and I love her and I have loved her since the beg… Or so it seems to me as I only became conscious
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
The pen must be mightier than the sword For there is nothing that will spill your guts faster than a bit of ink that says
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer