Vinyl Record Love

Mortal Beauty.

1.

'Sandcastle Eyes' 

I’ve never told you this

But while you were tiptoeing through the waves

In your lollipop-colored panties

With sandcastles for eyes and clouds for hands and miles of deadly beauty

I was falling deep, deep in love

For the very last time.

 

2. 

'Paddleboat'

Let’s lie in this paddleboat

And drift through the window heart of this lake

While I read you everything I’ve written

And you blush the color of California wine

And I can’t help but wish

This could be forever.

 

3.

'Abacus'

I want you to pose for me

Naked

A mountain with snow for collagen

Like the satin gown of a priestess

All in that skin you wear

And I want forever

To hide behind my mustard notebook

And with words

Place you on my highest altar

Where there is no sun

And pain is but a beautiful feeling.

 

4.

'Another Sunday'

Can we blow another Sunday like that?

Swearing one day we’ll pull a Bonnie and Clyde with cap guns

Hopping on a coal train to nowhere and smoking hand-rolled jacks

Shrink-wrapping our tongues with sour Warheads

Pretending we’re getting engaged in chain Italian restaurants

Writing our favorite Beatles’ lyrics in soda bubble font with candy-colored chalk

Dressing like Bohemians and bowling terribly just because

Staring down another old sun on the edge of a water tower

Skinny-dipping in a lake painted with the orange moon

Dancing to songs I wrote for you in some foreign field

All because, and just because

It’s me and you and another Sunday.

 

 

 

Reviews

[emmah]

the mundane transcends into the extraordinary almost unknowingly, unwillingly, without ever registering it's presence until it is but a vague memory - and just like that, there is divinity envelops the right now - and another camouflaged surreal moment to subsist in - only on some sparkling days do the moments truly reveal themselves as they occur - and those are the moments i found myself lingering in as i read this.

[Miss Coral]

Beautiful, fun, and absolutely wonderful in every way.
Divine.
Off to my library you go.