Sunday, February 2, 2014

First Poem In Over A Year

if you haven’t eaten in days
dip your fingers into cheap white wine
lick them.
it will taste like buttered bread
heaven for the starving

the hell of the sacred

what I could
not fathom carved caves
deep it
was sickening
sadistic
to know

the knowledge was fucking
that actually it was galaxies 

galaxies growing inside of me
all the while I was tilting toward them
outward from the earth

away from got sick with their
whirling I could not understand I was
too
small
too little a thing too
thinking a thing too
human a thing
to not be sickened by their beauty

no communication.
no language.
we want them they don’t
know us don’t know how to know
the way we know each other
and so sad a way and so
small
how we die gaped and haggard and hoping they know

heavenly bodies that don’t give a fuck

we name them after gods.


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