– for Cecilia
Sentinel in my closet with black parted lips,
a siren with self-repairing teeth,
beckoning me to fill her with my life again.
She’s got a taste for rough flights
over continents and oceans,
the tango down jetways.
Her wheels toughened on LA sidewalks,
New York stairs and London lifts.
This passionate suitcase wants nothing more
than to go back to Paris,
bump along cracked pavement,
soak up language, unzip desire.
To purge my black coat,
the one I wore at Place Vendôme,
the night I fell out the door on my way to you.
Photo by Alexa LaSpisa
Love these poems as I do Collin’s other work. Such perfect metaphors and precise storytelling.
Thanks, Karen!