Save Our Soulsickened- Adriana Tousun

[highlyeccentric]

If we must pick sins, then, let
gluttony be mine: I know the hot
shame of it well, the pour of wine
and honey from the nostrils, the grit
left between teeth after the apple skin
has rotted away. The dirt under my
toenails is filigreed in gold, and I've
dreamt for years of verdant cowardice; but
for all my excesses, I would rather
gorge myself on bony particulars,
the fresh slice of knife-edged disgust.

And as my belly swells with proof
of a vast and ancient hatred,
I'll swallow yet more, fold the seeds
of the universe into the crease of a
thigh, the delicate interior curl of an ear.
I can bear no longer the empty marrow-pockets;
forsake me, take a rib and bind it with the dusty
carcass of a pomegranate. Damned, I'd
expect. Desiccated.

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From the latest Goblin Fruit.

Picked up a collection of Jack Gilbert's poems today, for a break from the collected works of Audre Lorde

Comments

[jjhunter]

I really like the poems you've been curating for your poem-a-day-for-2013 - would you have any interest at some point in writing some posts about what this project has been like for poetree? We'd love to have someone host a week about making regular space in one's life for poetry without necessarily writing it, and I for one would love to hear more about where you find poetry, and how you chose which poems you share.

[highlyeccentric]

Huh, ok, I could do that!

[jjhunter]

\o/

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