The Looking Glass by Nicole Barth [11/30/11]

Say my name and every color illuminates.

Your voice is the liquid lullaby that pulled me from my sleep.

Keeping time with the cadence of your breaths,

I reflected mirror images back at you.

Palm to palm,

 I traced the sound of laughter

across the ridges of your hand.

The quiet sighs and unspoken syllables.

I would write them all down if I only knew how.

Thousands of words and I couldn’t seem to command them.

You whisper

 through quivering fingertips and lavender caresses.

 I’ve been scrawling your poetry.

I’ve seen it in the lightning. I’ve seen it in you. 

Only If For A Night by Nicole Barth [11/21/11]

You’ve caught me with eyes wide open.

Technicolor daydreams spill out the memory of you. 

Hazel to azure. 6’3 to 5’6.

The silk of your hair.

And these city lights don’t compare

to the beams that shine through the floral curtains of your room.

You keep me between the waters of your heart.

I don’t need the fame or the night.

 I don’t want the crowds. They never seem to stay.

I’ve lost the anchor around my waist.

Don’t need the taxis blaring in the background for guidance.

My fingertips know the contours of your face...

the pause in your words.

And I heard your voice as clear as day. It was so surreal.

I will leave my body.

I’m smoking out the harmony that sleeps in you. 

Fish Eyes by Nicole Barth [11/11/11]

The ethereal voice caresses my veins.

Steady drumming fuels
every teenage melodrama
echoing in my mind.

I’m so heavy, heavy in your arms.
The rhythm's frantic laughter pulls me in.
I was a heavy heart to carry, but you never let me down.

Freeze me in a shuttered moment of a camera’s lens.
Breathe unmistakable silence into me.
Lace your fingers with mine and
steady the mind that paces in abandoned corridors.

Painted eyes look for the seawater crashing within you.
Wash away the glass shards and layers of coal
that knot my stomach.

This will be my last confession.
I whisper but it’s no secret.
I was a heavy heart to carry, but you never let me down.