After Happiness
Danny Earl Simmons
Fingernails found black against blue flesh.
Last screams as hoarse and unheard as coffin sobs.
Voices ringing toward the Pacific and one long swim
into the sun. The sound of the other shoe sliding
all the way from foot to floor as I kiss her goodbye
for what nobody could have known would be the very
last time.
Danny Earl Simmons
Fingernails found black against blue flesh.
Last screams as hoarse and unheard as coffin sobs.
Voices ringing toward the Pacific and one long swim
into the sun. The sound of the other shoe sliding
all the way from foot to floor as I kiss her goodbye
for what nobody could have known would be the very
last time.