Midnight Memory.

I hear tap...tap...tap...against the side of my house.

The wind is blowing, I tell myself, and I roll over and sink deeper into my comforter.

Tap...Tap..Taptaptap....        Tap...Tap...taptaptap...

My eyes fly open and in the night, I can see Karma, lit by my too late Christmas Tree. Her eyes are open. And her head is cocked to the left.

The taps are in perfect Cadence to a dance once danced. A new dance. One that you had to learn.
Who does not know how to dance?

You did not.


We stood in your entry way. A look of horror on your face as I demanded you listen to my expertise. I sang out loud with the tapping of my heels. "Tap..Tap ..TAPTAPTAP!" and I made you whisper "2..3..4"

The marble was polished so high that you could see a reflection of us in it.

Me being bossy...and you hating that I was.
You hating that I pushed you around the floor TEACHING something that you did not know. You were always uncomfortable there.

Not knowing something.


"Tap..Tap...TapTapTap!" I announced.

You stared at me. Your lips pursed, shoulders tight....Fucking pissed off.

"Now you!" I stomp my foot and push at your stiff body. "Tap..Tap..TapTapTap! I'm saying!"

"I hear you." 

"Fine. Look like a douche."

"Don't say that. Ladies don't say things like that."

I snort and lean down to pick up my bag. "You're so caveman-ish. It is 2009. I can say what I wish. Maybe I am no a lady. Maybe I am...just a woman and you are JUST a grumpy man....who cannot dance. Plus...will look like a douche."

"Fine. If I say it will you stop talking like that?"

"nope." I smile up at and ingest him.

 Black leather shoes whipped up to a shine. Perfectly tailored suit, a red ruby gem of a tie.
                                                           Silk. Red. Yum.
All topped with delicious curls that try to be tamed. They do their very best.
But fail.
They fail miserably. But I wont let him chop them yet.


I stare at them and he growls. And reaches for my hands. "Stoppit."

"I DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING!" I huff and move my body with his.
Now I'm pissed off. Now my shoulders are tight.


"...2...3...4..." He whispers, leans down and says into my hair "You don't have to say anything. Your eyes can fuck me from across the room."

I stop dancing.

I snort.

He grabs be again, forcibly this time. "And don't shout. Ladies do not shout.....ever."

My head is thrown back and I laugh. I laugh and I snort and I hiccup. Tears squeeze out from beneath my eye. Mascara runs down my face and still.... I laugh until I am hunched over from it.
My body heaving and he is laughing with me....




And they come again.

TAP...TAP...TAPTAPTAP

"2..3..4.." I whisper.


TAP...TAP...TAPTAPTAP...

"2..3..4.."

Karma is standing now. Her tail is wagging and it scares me.

I whisper to her "It is just the potato bushes. They are dancing for us." I pull her down beside me and bury my face into her fur. I shake the memories from my brain and sigh back into sleep.

Silence fills the wall...and my house. Karma huffs once, and rolls to the left. Sighing as well and giving up my ghost.

My body lightens and my eyelids become heavy once more.

Nothing more is tapped against the wall, And I smile and decide it was a dream of rememberance. One of happy and laughing and smiles..So I smile and sink into sleep.

The clock ticks. Softly from the living room, it's movements flick each eyelid.

Quietly now, once more it comes, tap...tap...taptaptap... and then no more.