Sunday, July 7, 2024

Angelic April 2012

 

 

I text her from her front door

when I finally get there,

half expecting her to grow her hair

and hang it down from her ivory tower

 so I might climb up it,

she merely ringing the buzzer instead,

 letting me climb up

 flight after flight of stairs

until reach her light at the top,

 the terrible door to the roof

staring at me from beyond hers

like a haunting premonition

I do not yet known the meaning of,

 having seen it only in my dreams

and the dark photo she sent me

in the middle of night,

 like a vision of heaven she claims

 she lives in or is heaven for those

she invites to her arms,

 the echo of my knock on her door

reverberating and then responded to

by the sound of her approaching footsteps,

the snap of her unlocked door,

and then herself,

 angelic.


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