local_library The Mermaid 2

by David Crews

Published in Issue No. 261 ~ February, 2019

(them)

 

In my dream you were there

 

behind me, your body nestled to mine. I could feel your

 

breath on my neck and I asked when you came.

 

I have always been here. They say time

 

in the universe is not the same

 

as how we think of time. You know my touch

 

because you’ve felt it before. My hand

 

wrapped to your thigh, how my mouth wets a path

 

down your skin’s delicate hairs.

 

I cannot ever know your touch without having felt

 

your absence. In the dream you were gone

 

carried away on the crest of a wave

 

when I woke I felt far from you.

 

That comes in the pain of distance and landscape

 

the emptiness of horizon. (She centers herself.)

 

Do not translate this, I want to feel you

 

inside me. Stay in this moment.

 

Do not go anywhere without me.

 

 

 

carried away on the crest of a wave” from “Land Locked Blues” by Bright Eyes (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, 2005)

 

 

 

 

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DAVID CREWS (davidcrewspoetry.com) serves as editor for The Stillwater Review and director of the Silconas Poetry Center at Sussex County College. He is author of the poetry collection High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015), as well as a new book of lyric essays on the Adirondacks titled Wander-Thrush (Ra Press, 2018).