WHAT IS TRUE ABOUT DECOMPOSITION.
By Heather Smith
imagine us dancing to the record player. imagine us bringing each other back to life, daily.
when all the soft parts of us
have dissolved,
you’ll still
reach through hardwood
for my hand
still
climb through a coffin
to help me up,
and tell me i’m beautiful
even though i can’t blush at your words anymore,
you’ll say them.
date night comes with a lot of advantages
when you’re dead,
when you don’t have muscles,
when you’re nothing but bone,
when you’re a skeleton
date night comes with a lot of advantages like
we can get in-to
any restaurant we want,
a witching hour reservation and a
skeleton key open the door, and
after dinner
when the ghost of a band strikes up,
and
they start playing our song,
you ask me to dance, so
we wile away waltzing, so
date night comes with a lot of advantages
when you’re dead,
when you don’t have muscles,
when you don’t feel pain
date night comes with a lot of advantages like
your two left feet don’t stop us from dancing
anymore.
when we walk home
you’ll kiss my cheekbone
and i’ll hug your ribs
and we’ll wait for tomorrow to start.
what is true about decomposition is that
i wake and i hold your hand
i sleep and i keep you warm
i wake up i sleep i love you again
what is true about decomposition is that
when all the soft part of us
have dissolved,
my bones will choose to love you.
imagine us dancing to the record player. imagine us bringing each other back to life, daily.
The Trinity Review 