Knotty

Knotty
[not-ee]
adjective, noun, adverb, verb

Can be defined as:

1. Tension, possibly unresolved and never will be
2. A dance between distance and intimacy
3. A war between belief and delusion

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Knotty
isn't a pretty gift bow
it is tense,
twisted in summer twilight,
frays kneaded
skin on skin,
hands clasped,
legs locked.

isn't logic
it is art,
extraordinary
souls hooked
biting lips
neck burns
imagine and real,
deeply, deeply
seared.


isn't sad, no,
it is what-ifs,
echoing in the
hollows of the
kinks, high and dry,
wrung, and
high again
trembling
awakenings
in the middle
of the night

defy, sink, resist, cave in
fall, guard, open, close,
open, close

a trance on repeat, lost
in the unwritten lines
running across us,
from your body to mine.
where do they start?
where will they end?

you and i crossed
so tight, so snug, so taut,
with the ends turned away from each other

that is -
the knot.

snip it off,
shall we?

could we?

image credit: @wuukasch and @chema_madoz