Kristen de Kline #134 Somewhere

it happens in stages   unravelling
different incarnations, amped up

speeds,  fleeing places people things
          nothing
seems to happen except the rain comes down

relentlessly, drenches the front door mat
seeps into the garage under the aluminum

roller door     clouds burst, the dam breaks
open that way or this     didn't see that coming,
did you?

it happens in stages   fleeing
lie low
lose yourself and lose time
vanish

you wake out of a dream within another dream about another life another you    

you scribble a line, something about another day    
does it burn, burst  
break
down

is the day as blue    as    the sky is here,    is it
as    faded    as the afternoon light, somebody sneaks
in a kiss - where did that come from?

it doesn't matter how far we've gone
it is never    where you I him her    wants us to be
doesn't matter how I speak, how I
break   it just doesn't
make any sense
anymore

at the end of the day
we bury stray feelings
in poems
tangle them up in lawless
lines, wayward words

at the end of the day
we drown in water
and  in wine
somewhere
behind
the
clouds