At A Water Marked Table I Sit At In Memory
abecedarian
Albatross it was. Or was it a Seagull? Some festering
burden flitting about the dark oak rafters of the quasi-vintage
cottage, made quaint breakfast nook, your mother recommended for maple
donuts & baked Brie omelettes. We drank our coffee β black β
evading the crux of the matter, teetering between truth & sliced
fruits. The soft crunch of sourdough, the feathered knocking on stained
glass, suspended the cumbrous silence we shared like a side dish.
He was caught in a hard place. Wings squeezed by the aperture
in the roof put off from patching; probably plopped in to rest from rain
just to be jammed in by Jesus and dripping planks. It was kindness
killing us & kindness that would liberate the bird from squalor. Somehow
letting go was as dolorous as the sea-fowl mewing β its narrow wings
maimed by the timber fissure overhead our love funeral & the creamer cups
neatly stacked pyramidically. Fiddling with bitter-sweet accompaniments:
orange marmalade, wood stirrers & the half empty water glass
perspiring between us in the stiff, enclosed air. You & I
quibbled about the bill. Both of us compensating for out flash-pan
romance we consented to end before it began. Before honeycomb turned
sap, before wishing broken eggs could be pieced back, before your travel
toothbrush found its way to mine & two t-shirts became a drawer. Before
us negotiating this one last grace as reparations for wrong time & place...
Vagabonds: two escapists on the run from head to heart, committed to
wasting time, our togetherness purely coincidence. Only crumbles &
X-shaped silverware remained β marking the spot where almost lovers lie.
Yesterday we made green. Now, at the break of day, all is yellow & blue.
Zest fading from me & you & the oceanic-eagle hanging around our necks.
About the Creator
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