Ena Lü

A Great Man? …… love handles concealed in a suit.

and the end
a light appeared
a small bird flew
straight into the heart of all things

I can then let go

I don’t need much

you are in my life

and all the time your lips
brushed my cheek
your arms rocked my sleep
and my heart caught a glimpse
of us sailing away in that great ship

it simply is easily

also

this

There are things I haven’t told you
how I love to sit in treetops and pretend
I am a strange little creature
or how the smell of that old perfume

now I listen to television
to construction noise next door
to the world expanding
in my soup
in my little incubator

waited for the one to hear it
the only one left
the one that had gathered and knelt
and curled itself into the first syllable ever read

vulnerability
open windows
the sound of the ocean
peppermint tea
green hand knitted bed sox
passport to everywhere
firewood
rose scented candles

this skin you dance me in
could belong to another
dance where I was
and she
could not step on your
toes

then she took the loaded gun
she tried to forget
and fired at the past

shot the centre of it’s heart

When Grief came to stay
we were all still bumbling about
unconscious
acting out
our own dear
versions
of the Bold and the Beautiful
the Young and the Restless
Home and Away

then maybe the rain would have come and the glass
would be wet as it touched those lips

and the songs that came before birth would wrap your heart
in soft tiny hands of memory

a tight fist a tighter smile
an open letter to the vatican

burning the skin and lifting

the perfect lamb

SSSSSSSS makes a perfect sound
on the lips
of the Slothiest girl in town

I was sure I was ready to leave
when my breath was taken

I could sense
the easy light

make your mouth

But I will never say thanks for the one that has
been seduced by technology

cos I’m old school you see

it’s because you know

your chin nuzzles deep into my neck
I feel your heart as though
it beats from my own chest

Lucy adjusted the sequin feathers at her breast, and took in a small
silent breath.

Where he loved only her