On
a hill of teal grass
There’s
an abandoned house with all my things still in it
I
tried to maroon the memory of you there
To
shove your deep voice and manly scent through the door
But
it escapes shutting by centimetres.
Carpeted
by discarded cuttings of your hair
And
on days where I feel exhaustion on my skin, or miss my bus,
I
roll all over in it.
When
I turn the TV on, BBC 1 replays the first time we held hands
Like
it’s as important as the Royal Wedding.
The
bricks in the wall wobble to the rhythm of you breathing
From
when I watched you, felt you, all those nights ago.
The
bricks tremble and make me shudder
“I’m
still there,” their deep echo reverberates through the house.
The
dishes are never clean; I’ve tried to wash your mess away
But
these things can’t be dissolved in water, in heaving rain.
Still
then the abandoned house does not drown,
And
when life feels empty, I pay that teal hill another visit
And
I feel the edges of the kitchen counters
Like
they are the edges of your skin, of your bare hips.
I’ve
furnished the memory of you in this way
The
bed is special because it has your hands
And
wraps me tightly like the days did not race past
There
I lie, sodden in this house with no roof,
The
rain beating at me in violent strokes.
The
pathway out of the door still has your footprints on it
Your
tread like acid on my mind
in
this house that is horrible, that I cherish relentlessly,
Unwanted,
it is all unwanted. Maroon me too.
Maroon
me with your arms on a hill of teal grass.
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