Thursday, 1 November 2012

"toute de suite" by callie atta


tout de suite. 2008. 

granite points and shifts of some-rock
the objects of our affection might change

to replay the chord to box up the wine bottles I left at your sink
we scrambled to the top and broke out the camera

I can hear your good-bye slowly condensing flat third on the front window
                describing me. peeling paint instead of the bridge we climbed.
with a photograph we drew our weapons

four sharps but the melody still comes through.
I thought I would live in a thousand countries, with hundreds stored                                     still                                        as if the wars did not come to them
I played rogue you’re the playwright

slowly the birds of the spring the gulls the link
the ice fields loosen their hold to the ground
three inches each year will bring the whole shelf down

the north and the south; my love was not like that
hearts do not steer when you ask them to turn
melodies surprise the mind when they’ve been lost for years
and exposing the heart’s route can wash away the trail

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