After the longest Friday at work
I come home,
get a little drunk on
honey whiskey,
make lemonade from scratch,
cello on the speakers.
I get high & rock
Lindsay Sterling.
My friend’s fiancé hung himself:
a good man, videotaping his death, somewhere;
a failed conversation,
a wealth of unsaid words,
my voice is useless.
Tonight doing dishes
becomes a poem;
wearing a dress,
back exposed,
skin
still
hot
from loving,
I purple passion paint
my toes.
I like cooking with you,
that sneaky, subtle dance,
the way you taste
my finger-
hold
the whisk, turn,
& spill
spices in my palm,
drifting into
warm haze,
rising