umbilical
June 26, 2006, 9:18 PM
we have wrapped up our pillow world, propped up our plush pajama life, layered all in a lush sunday-morning laziness. nothing here but brushed cotton, shadows with no edges, luminescent soft-box smoothness. yes, the pillows have pillows and we are goose-down floating amidst conjured bubbles of fumbling laughter, lazy lilac breezes licking and tickling our curled and stretching toes. big piggy, little piggy, the market is so far away. all stretched out, forgotten, bled away like the traffic and the concrete and the rust is just a diffuse haze. no existence save this white-shear womb, this heaven of forgetfulness. Un-wound, healed, forever safe