Wednesday, December 05, 2012

kettle-mouth*



of all the things i thought i’d miss
i didn’t think i’d miss the snow
or you bounding down the road
toward me panting like a hungry dog

honey snow – yellow – bound
for melting & morning-piss cloudy
mouth-gas coffee tinted & desire
off the leash of normal loving

you’re like a day off school, lung-acher
spine-icer, night-muffler, & my life
is softer for your bundling in the middle
of the park in the middle of still living then



*A brand new poem written from my current residency at The New School House Gallery in York, responding to Helen Chadwick's Piss Flowers