Bed Room Stories

Bed Room Stories


The one about the tortoise who
found love under a bridge with
his soul mate who, having lost her
own shell tucked into his

The one about the magician
having had seven shots of scotch
before bed and then
juggling fire sticks how he
burned his lips from trying
to kiss the sky

The one about the gorgeous saint Selena
braiding her hair into skeins of silver
letting them down out her towered window
only to grow faint-hearted
cutting her own locks at her chin
and curling up on the floor

All of these and more read to me
tales of distant worlds
mythology as dear to me as the
swish of my dead brother’s heartbeat
which every night I listened for