Laura Ferrucci
I liked the way you and
your crisscrossed legs sat on
my middle-school-ignorant
navy-blue and daisy-patterned comforter,
watching,
the way your fingers crept
towards the neck of my guitar
while the magnetized look in your eyes drew mine and
my own fingers fell
slack in divine-driven intrigue,
the way you and
your eyes
full of quiet study and wisdom, like
worship, like
your vision of this instrument not as wood but as
hundreds of years of amber polished history
has earned you ownership, and it
does.
you and
your fingers then
spun aching minor chords, like
worship, like
somehow, in the sparkling incensed-violet melody you
spilled all over
me in my righteous nihilism,
you and
your body became an
offering, and
the wood
burned my fingertips when you
handed it back to me, ashamed and awe-stricken, like
worship, like
your life is an offering, and even
when I found the notes you played
(on this instrument that is not mine)
200 days and 200 nights after I knew you and
your legs sitting on my bed and
your multidimensional fingers,
worshipping,
no matter what I tell myself, I
am not a believer in beyond, and
pretending to pray just reeks of
my own mortality.
Laura Ferrucci is a third year student studying Mechanical Engineering. She builds cars by day, writes poetry by night, and just wants to find enough time to sleep.
