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Bucolic: Sheep's Milk
I worry
of Your bones:
heavy
as milk, and sour
as curdle.
Your femur
in the crust
on the pail's rim,
Your ribcage
in the skin.
I break it- must–
consume that milkiness
like a dead lamb's eye:
How else can I
see You, steep
in Your figure,
in both Your whole
and your broken bones?
I worry
of Your bones:
heavy
as milk, and sour
as curdle.
Your femur
in the crust
on the pail's rim,
Your ribcage
in the skin.
I break it- must–
consume that milkiness
like a dead lamb's eye:
How else can I
see You, steep
in Your figure,
in both Your whole
and your broken bones?
Literature
your hair, that night
Didn't feel like a needle, even.
Felt like cotton, it
felt like lucky rabbit's foot tucked into my pocket
in case I got nervous or
too jittery.
-Smelled clean and I remember
how it looked- a shining majesty in the
rays of an artificial bulb, refracting off
of a mirror, reflecting your fingers on
a guitar, gentle and constant.
Literature
The Berliner
Sick of writing about the pianist,
she leaves for Berlin and makes her
home next to the absence of a wall
She contemplates the American Embassy
and changes her cigarette brand
She sets out walking
and considers percentages of lives,
eats alone, begins to consider meat as flesh,
removes paintings from their frames
and in their place hangs mirrors
Calling home small voiced
she asks after family and friends
politely, washing dishes as she does so,
the phone in the crook of her neck
She makes no friends, does not make love,
resents nothing and leaves no
holes in people's lives
Literature
an augury of tears
your love is the wind
on water. mine heaves deeper
than cruel riptide.
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A bucolic is a poetic form that takes on the voice of a shepherd addressing or praying to God.
I may have taken too much literalism to the idea of a sheep-herder, but I think it's good! It was one of those poems that came out without much of a fight, which is always nice. Hope you enjoy.
I may have taken too much literalism to the idea of a sheep-herder, but I think it's good! It was one of those poems that came out without much of a fight, which is always nice. Hope you enjoy.
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wow. good job.