Tearing Through the Screen

A poem by Julia R. DeStefano

Photo by MontyLov on Unsplash

Tearing Through the Screen

You have a doll’s kiss.

Never have I known anything so gentle

in body or spirit.

I have a tumbling-down-stairs mind -

thousands of years old and full of musings -

an incessant,

tyrannical meandering

that ceases buzzing

when your breath meets mine.

© Julia R. DeStefano