Monday, June 6, 2011

Morning Poem

Woke up dry and fractured.
All moisture seeped out
Body and breasts and belly
are a bay or a river bed dried up.
Crackling with dead fish
and clams that are too afraid to open their mouths.
Patience in the mouth of a barnacle.
Body emptied of tensile strength.
A flattened out hierarchy of discomfort
awkward like a pachyderm in a party dress.

1 comment:

  1. ooh this reminds me of this poem
    http://www.waystationone.com/2011/06/upstream-without-water-wings.html

    the contrast of flow and dryness

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