raindrops and hats

loqui:

I keep getting up
and going to the door
to see if you’re out there
opening up to the same dull grey

sometimes a parcel to sign for
reminding me of living with her
and the plastic she would order

sometimes it’s the old guy next door
come to settle up for the shopping
I took round…

loqui:

We built this
with bare hands

bare fists
and bare bodies

up from the bone -
knuckles
webs
cartilage
canvas
plaster of Paris
lips sealed

it was the greatest -
symbiosis
the madonna and the whore

before
it was a
chestnut horse
clopping over
horse chestnuts
to autumn…