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Lips and Necks

from Husavik by Lisa Cantrell

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Hold me say this won’t last. Call my name and bring me back. I had a habit of keeping things I never wanted tucked away in tiny spaces like the skin behind my ears or the lovers in cuticles, obsessions in strands of hair, or acts of possession in the creases of my eyelids.

Nightmares fill the dark space between my mouth and the wall where my breath breached the sweet air between my lips and your neck. Shapes change the air turns warm and the water winds to a line on the wall. Faces change and chisel air between clean clothes and the doorframe. Forget I ever called to say I love you forget I ever flew 600 miles to taste your skin wake up beside you, forget you ever loved me back. We live in the spaces between our happiness, counting the days between our lips and our necks.

I’ll drink a toast to the sound of hammocks brushing dirt on a mountain in Chiapas in a city where I left you.

I was afraid of my thoughts, of my mistakes, now I’m afraid to sleep, afraid to wake. Twisting torso tasting air of things that were never mind to keep.

We drove for miles, we drove for days, your hands were mine and we were rain, but nothing lasts, nothing good or bad ever lasts. I had a habit of convincing you to convince me you loved me. You had a habit of drawing me back against my better judgment. We confuse happiness for evasion of tiny miseries, sleeping with comforts that do not let us sleep.

I’ll drink a toast to the sound of a thousand tongues singing whispering morning on me. We’ll raise our glasses to the sound of fading memories of tangled sheets and lips and necks on a winding road to free(dom).

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from Husavik, released November 6, 2013

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