Invisible Woman

We awake in your bedroom

And I wonder if you can see

Any part of me.

Does the dawn sun

Reflect the shape of my shoulders?

Are the dust particles

Dancing in my hair?

You hand grind your coffee

And burn your toast.

You're humming,

It's a song we used to sing

On the nights we didn't want to sleep.

The phone rings and

Your voice goes gentle

"Hello, my love..

My love..

My love.."

You say it three times

Over the course of the conversation,

And you're smiling.

Your eyes squinting through the kitchen window,

Watching the wrens

Jump from branch to branch,

You see right through me.

I bite my tongue till I taste blood

But nothing.

Outside, birds are yelling for their mates

"I'm right here!"

"Here I am!"

I press my cheek to the cold glass

And wail with them,

I need to be certain I exist.