Sunday, October 17, 2010

St. John the Dwarf


this is not a poem about mouths--or teeth

or the holes that bore their way into teeth

or about how the mouth is a hole that leads

inside.


it is about planting dry wood and waiting

for it to sprout, to take root, to circle down

to the center and find something like a

moon,


like a lilac as full as your belly, as violet

as veins on your thighs.




No comments:

Post a Comment