Sea Monsters

My head is melting into the cupboard & Allie is finding a mouse

Comes barging into the bedroom

Your room

Says the cat & the mouse are staring at each other

The eyes that hunger vs. the eyes that seek

My body heat is radiating down to the floorboards & you

You jump out of bed

You capture the mouse in a mason jar / take it down the rotting stairs / release it out into the rain /

Shivering — alive

Shaken up — alive

Everyone is wearing your clothes and no one has taken a shower

It is approximately 4:15am

Monday

February is ending soon

I lay down on the stage in your living room

Careful

Aligning my spine to the patterns in the carpet

Classical music is coming from the kitchen

I stare at the ceiling & see sea monsters at war; kittens in the bricks of the wall

Allie is yelling about Shostakovich & rock n roll &

&

What was that line?

What was that line?

that line about being so young?

You follow the lines beneath my eyes down to the stretch marks across my thigh

You ask me to retrace my steps