Picking Fruit
A field of choices
Rotten cherries scatter us
Piercing white noise breathing
Bow to the mirror
Heart stops, feet sinking
I hope you love loneliness.
Cloud kisses turn into lemons
Miles to go
Sheets that resume the velvet
Digging.
Never going.
Wheels that turn gold into rust
Frazzled metal pieces
Doors less traveled
Turn off the questions
Faucets drip
drip
drip too loud.
Faces shape the shadows
Spotted red with too large of gaps
Twisted minds collapsing into empty cores
Stains on skin
No evidence by surprise
Glass half empty by sunrise
Bones get chilly too.
Fluttering of feathers cause distractions
Winter is long gone,
and what was once fresh is now a prune.