This Poem was Submitted By: Rebekah C Joaquin On Date: 2000-07-08 22:58:56 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Something Not Quite Enough

The door fans my heated mouth Like the wind blowing up my skirt, and So vacant is the space that glosses over my limbs That I've forgotten the sense of your arms. So creeping are the patterns of shaken resolve to my plate That it stands over my face, A monument of cracked granite, Set in a cheap, determined glue That somehow keeps the resilient lines from driving One curve to another and another And to the center of an empty fist That isn't quite so poised Sometimes to strike A jaw that isn't quite so clenched Sometimes to see What isn't quite a lie, Sometimes though it is. And the hyperbolistic red, red rose Turns like the wind to be Something not quite enough Sometimes though it is.

Copyright © July 2000 Rebekah C Joaquin


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