Today’s theme is synesthesia. The inspiration of this haibun came from the fact that I started writing when my stereo played “A thousand kisses deep” by Leonard Cohen.
Tag: night
Shades of silence
It wasn’t confusion that crushed clouds into thunderstorm
It wasn’t my body disheartened by your words
**Psychedelic anticipation
Hit by insomnia, Amelia pretends to sleep
Blaring lines propagate inside closed eyelids
[…]
For just one night
I loved you for just one more night
You came in that dream after our journey
–the long one
Then you are!
23:59 — February 18 2030 Here I am Then you are So innocent you I? I remember holding this same letter (a weird object) questioning its authenticity Here I am writing it now feeling stuck in an anticausal reality …
Outside
The lights are off The music on It rains outside You could not remember I deceive The air had your smell Complicity-perfumed breeze I could not care anymore Conniving wind Extended stillness Passion-scented stillness You lied The night is on After-rain freshness enters my unreality …
No barrier tonight
He seeks a girl with the diamond edge that suspends all routine Amelia wears a pleated skirt zips up the boots goes out for the night Swing music at the club Tough guy checks her out No strap around her finger Tough guy checks him out Enough detail in…
Amelia is out
Somewhere in between thick eyelashes and the second behind her eyes something stops Amelia from leaving It is not lack of a confidence mask not her camouflaged smile nor the keys It is that mirror that keeps staring at her showing the sadness she shares life with…