a brief explainer
THAT SONG.... Thank you
On blindness and freedom, and being whatever we wanted to be ~
~ free form poem response ~
Oh to be
before the serpent grew feet and danced telling
how it was once a tree…
How limber and tactile that juicy dancing rope
could be!
Together we
Between the tongue and cheek of our sharpened silver teeth
Held
a red bloodied breast full of indivisible seeds.
Above
the petals of blossoms curling into knives
Falling from branches
Dodging lies with eyes
Below, soil curled creeped and swell
beneath our toenail
“Freedom! Freedom!” with flickering tongue
Licking sweet wisdom from our thumbs
Justice became of us, like a sunset upon eternal day
The chill sets in
Legs crumple and fall of
like lizard tails, or branches in icy wind
Bellies roll and swivel on land
Little embers marking the skin
a snake coming into winter, must abandon the honey sun
Close into darkness and
find shelter, within
THAT SONG.... Thank you
On blindness and freedom, and being whatever we wanted to be ~
~ free form poem response ~
Oh to be
before the serpent grew feet and danced telling
how it was once a tree…
How limber and tactile that juicy dancing rope
could be!
Together we
Between the tongue and cheek of our sharpened silver teeth
Held
a red bloodied breast full of indivisible seeds.
Above
the petals of blossoms curling into knives
Falling from branches
Dodging lies with eyes
Below, soil curled creeped and swell
beneath our toenail
“Freedom! Freedom!” with flickering tongue
Licking sweet wisdom from our thumbs
Justice became of us, like a sunset upon eternal day
The chill sets in
Legs crumple and fall of
like lizard tails, or branches in icy wind
Bellies roll and swivel on land
Little embers marking the skin
a snake coming into winter, must abandon the honey sun
Close into darkness and
find shelter, within