Away

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Away

In the bedroom of your olive dress, plastic stars glow
from damp plaster and patchouli haunts the sheets.

I watched that galaxy for years before asking
if you planned to become an astronaut.

Your laughter bubbled:
always, yes.

It was the first time I wished your mouth was not
so pink and perfectly oval, a bar of rose soap.

I cannot compete with the moon.

I would feed you cheese until your tongue
knows craters.
Convince you to jump as the swing reaches
its highest pitch

see, gravity has nothing on the playground (for a moment it seems those shoes of yours sputter wings, you are Hermes kin floating, flying, diving, landing crooked on your red tennis shoe)

I would wear your olive dress that slips from the shoulder, ask you to smell the warm curve of my collar:
this scent does not exist in space

but I will not say
stay

I did not say
stay

The airport a flutter of halogen, sharp heels, guard dogs that bark at ankles.

You handed me your coat:

I won't need it in Egypt.

In duty free, I dusted cheap perfume on the collar

this scent does not exist-

The moon winked, coy
as I bused home to your olive dress.

In flight above the Caspian Sea,
clouds parted

beckoning you on, up
away.

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released December 1, 2010
Poetry & Vocals by Alessandra Naccarato
Music by Ron Griffin

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