auld lang syne – Madison Zehmer
April 5, 2020
after “Carol (2015)”
halcyon tunnels / kinetic dolls /
goldfevers on your fingertips /
/ glass evaporation / glass eyes / glass rain / glass gloves /
the piano keys are melting / your hands on my shoulders are molting /
so you tell me what it tastes like to drown in seawater /
leave me the next day / yellow wallpaper / yellow sighs / peeling /
as lips pressed together / flung out of space /
the heavens still know my name on your tongue / exact and raw and holy /
doomed as the vultures who feast on roadkill / late dusk /
the rot in their bellies is the rot in mine /