Reflections on an Imaginary Taurus Friend

in bind weed bound notebooks | she kept her journals of rain

Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren Pacific Madrone tree berries, also called Arbutus trees. From Creative Commons.

Reflections on an Imaginary Taurus Friend 

in — security of clenched teeth and grinding molars 
knitting mandibles  
bone on bone 
surviving -al smile 
golden comfort 
gypsy caps 
masked silver moon hair

I will outlive that bastard 
as emaciated paper thin tree rings 
remember winters and draughts 
 
I will build lush 
terraces she said 
across the frigid  
mountain of his emotional indifference 
cascades of grape lilac 
red hot pokers and every colour of poppy 
with petals as bright as stellar corona 
and as big as bedsheets billowing in early summer air 
arched belly sails 
heaving 
sun baked 
a quarry of pierced red arbutus berry hearts 
a necklace of red suns 
shedding bark and saving leaves 
in bind weed bound notebooks 
she kept her journals of rain 


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