Letter Home To Parenthesis

Elision screams

claust’phobic

says she can’t go on like this

she needs to feel compl’te

please stop the rain

words run off the edge of the page

(is that po’tic?)

ne’ermind 

and all lost letters 

will find their destin’tion

som’day

* * *

dear dad 

dear mum

I had to leave home

all my friends were full stops

lo’tering amon’st the cut and paste debris

like brok’n verse vagab’nds

bored ellip’is 

…

searching for meanings

inarticulate dots

… 

in leath’rs and zips

there was a mess’ah

once

we kissed on the ‘ips

but a question mark

hung over ‘im

now I feel free

(un-(prevented)) uninhibited 

I’m learning to breathe in

breathe out exclamations of happiness

must dash

love  

E

- ps - will send another letter 

soon

© 2007  P.A.Levy

First published by Streetcake 2009