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from contingency by alyssa kai

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I wake up in the woods by a cast-iron stove in winter
a preacher on the payphone warns me of what I need to know
I mumble to myself "I'm not ready" and I worry
you pick me up from the station at sunrise I'm ready to go

you accelerate so slowly it's the kindest thing I've seen in several days
I can never see your eyes darting wildly hidden by your hair
you decelerate to a stop before you loose your slender fingers from my hand
I can never see your eyes but somehow I know they are there

pull out the backyard open wide
the itching in my wrists subsides

kisses like punctuation marks
the burning horizon shooting off sparks
we're stopping maybe it's wrong
we won't be here very long

I slip and slide wildly over your mother's icy driveway confused
inside your mother's boyfriend chops up vegetables and you pack
outside I watch the woodpeckers swarming at the feeder in the snow
outside you give me one of those looks I give it to ya right back

we leave and the mattress bangs wildly on the roof of your car
the same tape whines away three or four or five or six times
we leave the windows fly open at will let the cool air in
and at last the sun gives up and sinks below the pines

pull out of here our smiles wide
I barely know how to drive

kisses like punctuation marks
the burning horizon shooting off sparks
car on fire in the pennsylvania pines
"harder days coming maybe, I don't mind"
freeway winding wide and clear
powerlines draw us tight and near
you and me so far gone
we won't be here very long

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from contingency, released January 27, 2016

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