microbiome
years melting off: puddles for dragonfly
eggs: omelette and peach sliced with goat
cheese: sitting under over burdened walnut
tree by the slaughterhouse while parents make
transactions: money for meat: time for
death: living for waiting: finding greasy five dollar
tip in between teeth: gum disease blooming local rose
garden: at the point suffering is
unavoidable: pinprick eternal reminder of
thorn: cleaning soft cheese off blade of
knife: motor control in young
child: flare of anticipation
nonetheless: it’s 10PM do you know where your children
are: night bath in purple cowboy
hat: cow means ugly: pig means ugly: chicken means
scared: lamb means glorification of
sacrifice: but don’t roll over and doe
eye: scratch your own belly if you have
to: wash in your own years if you have
to: with your mouth open they can take your
teeth: only dragons have
fire: you only have
storybooks: learn as fast as you
can: clean your knives before juice makes them too
sweet
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“at the point suffering is
unavoidable: pinprick eternal reminder of
thorn: cleaning soft cheese off blade”–I love how the sharp images tumble throughout this poem.
thank you—tumbling is exactly what i was going for
A vivid and complex piece exploring many topics, fascinating!
Love how the colon throughout makes each bite an imperative – so many great lines, but my fave: clean your knives before juice makes them too sweet
I’m with Liz here; came to say how the open colons seem to drive the poem further inside, each image part of the previous image, complicating them for the reader endlessly so that, at close, your eyes are drawn back to the beginning to reconfigure the way you read it all