Something gets pulled across the floor. It's not that heavy, but makes these little mews of complaint.
an arm, rolled over and trapped beneath at this wrong angle rolled over and snapped like a twig on the forest floor.
not a sharp, crisp, clean snap
like the floor of the forest is damp and spongy moss saturated
lush and vegetable
a green stick soft wet gurgle of a break
Only it isn't a forest, or a branch
the fingers so close to my eyelids I can decipher the spider sprawl signals creep across the knuckles
The sounds have stopped.
I stretch, shift leaves and debris, emerge and touch the very end of fingers this kiss of tips soft, fleeting, stop.
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I like to think it's you ("I") getting dragged by someone, too pissed or wasted to move on your own. I like the "wet gurgle of a break", though the "green stick" irritated me: Wet, decaying, crumbly wood breaks (well, crumbles) very differently from fresh, green wood, that splinters in many, parallel fibres that are next to impossible to tear. Both images work, though the wet, decaying one is much better, but it's got to be either or.
ReplyDeleteThe last sentence makes it sound more as if you disposed of someone else, though. You stretch after having dragged him to wherever you'll leave him. Kiss good-bye? "Sounds have stopped" only because no more dragging - or because whoever is being dragged has either fallen unconscious or even died?
Removal of a body with a good-bye kiss to the dead hand? Or being dumped yourself, and addled, the own hand in front of your face, kiss your own fingers?
Confused, as always, but most of the images hint at a beautifully fucked-up picture... as always. ^_^