settled/unsettled - kelli lage

On a serious note.

I am settling into myself.

No matter how hard I squint,

light washes sticky bedroom walls

and his green eyes are so pretty even 

when I am gasping for life.

I am unsettling away from myself.

Now matter how easy it is to keep eyes wide open

darkness marks territory in the gnawed sofa

and his eye bags are so buried

even I am depressing death.

I have nothing serious to say.

Kelli Lage is an assistant poetry editor for Bracken Magazine and Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated poet. She is the author of Early Cuts, I'm Glad We Did This, and Harvest is a Chapel. Lage's work has appeared in Stanchion Zine, Maudlin House, The Lumiere Review, Welter Journal, and elsewhere. Website: www.KelliLage.com.