nostalgia – Thistle Thoughts

On the Floor of Your Apartment

Those perfect pearls imprint
an enlightened message
on my fruit-thin flesh

reminiscing on
eyeliner so thick
everyone will know
you’re crying

Remember winter, Madonna’s
Immaculate Collection album,
Megaman III, a false sense of
innocent security

Glacier blue walls
and the autumn
scent of spiced apples…
means I’ve woken
up in Michigan.

…voice the scraping metal
sound of teeth
on a fork,…

I used unraveled
tapes as ribbons
for the gift box
I put my heart in…