Hush

Hush

Her name in his mouth

A flowing melody of syllables
A whisper
Hush

Nonsensical flow
Stand back, finger on your lips
Apart from it all
Hush

Which that of fell
Over a noisy crowd
Packed into a hot auditorium
Stage blinded by shadow
Silence
Hush

In your ears, muffled
A haze over the heads
Flies, clouds in your eyes
Iridescent wings beating
Like heart on bone
A whistle through the gap in your teeth
A breath
Hush

Suspended, without a beginning
Ever a prologue
Lips sewn shut, needle and
Thread around your tongue
Dental floss
A biting sting, a dangling string
Hush

Trailing conversation
Three periods, dots
Ink splatters were accidents

Miscarriage, hurricane, murder

Sirens

The sirens they don’t hear
Shivering underwater
Bubbles, the air you’ll never receive
Off the bridge they plummet
Hush

They’re dead, they’re cold and dead
Lifeless, numb, not moving
They can’t move
Can’t talk, can’t see
Can’t hear the sirens
Coming to save them
You can’t save the dead
Hush

They drowned
Libretto no more
Closed eyelids sealed shut
By death’s breath
Icy wisps of souls
Leaking from their mouths
Swirling tendrils and frosty veins
Moth dust, pixie dust, bone dust
Grazing hipbones, collarbones bare
Dead, the dead walk
They whisper
Hush

The dead kiss to the music of the ambulance
Sleeping underwater
Kissing underwater
Silent kisses, kisses that wrap around your eyes
Burn into your mind
The dead kiss to the sirens
That won’t save them
Underwater grave
Hush.
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I wrote this in Physical Science. It started off as an envy thing but by the third line I had lost control of what I wanted to say and it spun away from me, like that dream from last night, the one you can't remember. I ripped the looseleaf to shreds then when I got home I taped it back together and typed it up.