We fight by email, isn't that nice.
Protected by cold impersonality
as we hurl deadly insults
at each other.

no incentive to kiss
make up
no ability to.

i can not stay angry
in person
cannot slam a door and leave
cannot hang up the phone.

but i can delete an email.
refuse to answer it.
dredge my vocabulary
for choice words strong enough
to wound as deeply as
the dark me wishes.

i anger and remain so
feeding my dark knot
cradling it for fear
of losing.