Arsenic Lobster poetry journal |
Issue Thirty-six Winter 2014 |
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This Being Human George Kalamaras We shall slip the unrestricted dagger into the sunflower’s furry delirium. The ranunculus sun shall sink into the trenches of the moon. Many moons, many microscopic worms, as if we were born of Jupiter. Jupiter, the controlling planet the ancient rishis called guru. Toward the shredding of the body is an arrogance of salt. Smell me, touch my, mouth me toward dissolve. I wish I could trouble-musk the moon into my very. Skin of me—be born of myself, through myself, the way the bark of a tree grieves fire. Poison, then, the ivy of my passing. Postulate my mouth From the ocher robe of soft brown planets of the blood, we remember what it was like. This being human. This touch and tough of tongue. This always begging. This human reach and sting. Previous Poem | Next Poem |
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