Barometer ~ #NaPoWriMo2021 ~ Day 17


 

The perturbing constancy with my efforts with patience

is the ice that forms on the tip of the match

I try to drown.

 

When there is no resolution but gluing myself

to a calm I don’t feel, time turns into winter

and no matter how hot my cheeks burn,

my body is an iceberg handcuffed to pretense.

 

My patience isn’t pretty nor inviting.

What I don’t say with my voice my body speaks

from eyes that hide nothing.


Oh truth, you are a veritable bitch

scratching me with your fingernails, and

prodding me with your assessment,

“The whole room can feel when the

weather storms through August and December.”


©Susie Clevenger 2021


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