Saturday, July 6, 2024

Stirring up the volcano again April 2012


When it stirs you up,

 it stirs you completely,

you can't go back to what you were before,

like the old Science class lecture

mixture and chemical reactions,

he iron filing and magnets

the stuff our teacher used,

but she did not know

 about the volcano

stirring up inside me,

 waiting to explode

 now, as I wait for

the next text to come,

I feel it again,

brewing,

 a chemical reaction

magnetic attraction

nothing can make undone,

she tapping out the message

 from a place so remote

I feel lost in the translation,

like Morris Code,

 my heat beat quickening

each time my phone beep

 with message received,

the stirring up inside,

the imagined scene

I see in my head,

 I don't talk about it,

fearful it might make

 the volcano erupt.


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