On the occasion of Poetry Month, The duty, with the complicity of the Office of Poetic Affairs, gives a poem to read each week. For this last five weeks: at the mass of fools we will get married one dayby Melanie Beliveau.
at the mass of fools we will get married one day
i loved you right away titmouse song
we are at the window
flooding the mirrors the fountains
delicious crucifixion
the tongue falls back to the bottom of its cavity
detention longer than expected
we pass the cardio-respiratory polygraph
in front of the trees kiss of silk
your atomic words resound long wedding march
I tuck you in quietly
of all colors is the fire on the altar
successful cardioversion
nice storm, don’t go like that
don’t go just marry me
marry me in a leather jacket on a love seat
kiss me before i put my black laces in the wash
put your hand on my belly love me like crazy
languorous clusters of wind at the lower body
at the bottom of the gray sheets an incision
you picked the little flower there
that all the guys wanted to poke into women’s bellies
voices perfume the sky
life tears it at an angle to continue to understand
there are so many seas to sow fathers to find
fractal of orgasms
I look for you a hundred times a day
undressed in the transparency of the image
our lips come out of the frame and already respond to each other through the blue evenings
our inked bodies ready to get closer
the dismissed light of the lanterns blows on and in your belly where my breasts float
that you have never seen, near or far
our engaged moments at dawn on screens vast silence
between two stars and a little neon velvet heart
I tattooed you the same sentence
again the same letters in the same order
on your shoulders you reddened the space between the needles
my hand in your curls strays on purpose
in your neck my fragile shadows whisper behind my eyes
you’ve never seen them up close
your presence haunts me
she catches me in long emergency kisses that follow one another
the yard overflows along your spine
under the writer’s black coat
the moon suddenly lasts longer than the sun
our own torrent
love our child
we rock it between bodies
to die married