The body
Yellowed bones
My teeth
Were a little
Splotched
Fucked up
On that day
The Orthodontist’s office
Left
Yellowed bones
Stained by
The ugly power
Of words
I was told
Could not
Hurt
Like sticks
Or stones
Now exposed
A failed persuasion
To convince myself
It would be
Okay
I said
To frowning
Face
“It will be
Okay,
I never smile
Anyway”
Hidden
Forgotten attic
My yellowed bones
Once reminded me
Of only the pain
I chewed
On
Years of
Spitting shame
Out
Swallowing pride
In
Salivating no longer
Smile
I learned
Is not a death
But a seed
Oh yellowed bone
You’ll be
My proof
Stained
You, yellowed bone
I’ll carry
Like you have
Carried me
To another type
Of exposure:
Honesty
Olfactory
Manicured gardens
Of inconsistent plants
Leave muddy trails
In the sky
That drive our noses
Confused-like
Animals
Remaining forests
Lead us home
By their smell
Ancient receptors
Long not triggered
Of relationships
Trampled
Diamond bodies
What happened to love
Of blank stares on barren landscapes
Of hovering energy forces
And caverns cut into my soul
Not a wound; a portal
My mouth a piece
From another world
Pulling sounds into harsh air
My body a diamond
That resists breaking
Forged from pressure
Mines exploding everywhere
[*X*X*X*X*X*]
In your story bombs
You dropped on the world
You wrote us as a bombed nation
Then committed abominations
You celebrated your blood-stained hands
Your inability to fathom life
Your demand to cut a branch
From humanity’s tree
And then you spoke of sin
Of me
With your trimmers in hand
And destiny in your eyes
[*X*X*X*X*X*]
Diamond bodies
Forged from pressure
Unspectacular
Mines exploding everywhere
Body (Endless)
Losing my will to live
my body feels tired
i get up from my bed
look across to the mirror
in front of me
my eyes like lakes
im drowning
but i feel like ive done
everything i could
and still nothing
at the same time
tell me, mother
is it my time
or is my body just
shedding new skin
Body (endless)
Body laying down
But still
Isolated from the wind
Body typing
Body thinking
Body wondering what to do
Say next
Body reminiscing
Body purging
Thoughts toxic to itself
Body seeking unknown
Body listening
Trying to hear
Body speaking
Body lurching forward
For some grasp of understanding
Body understanding
A voice translation
Utilitarian purpose
Body speaking through life
Unfiltered
Filtering words
Thoughts expressions
Aimless fleeting
Unspoken held captive
Body struggling to move
Its limbs heavy
Like boulders
Weighted objects
Oilless
Body forgetting
Not to think
Body focusing
Fixations troubling
Its tomorrow
Body thrusting force
Feeding itself dirt
Mushrooms rocks fallen
Split fabrics grown
Oscillating between life
And thinking death
Constantly body
Constant body
Transgressing speech
Soundless performance
Murmuring body
Unworried about sense
Rational expression
So unique
So craving
What is not
Body not
Speaking
Not holding
Itself up
Any longer body
Tragic oh body
Twisted god body
Usurping
Its hegemony
Body its solace
Body its gumption
Will to move
Will to ponder
To yearn
To stretch
Thin and thick
Body movement
Yonder wild
Body in bushes
Trees and lakes
Streams
Body water
Oceans and tidepools
Fish and urchins
Particulates
Body scuttling
Crabs and sea snails
Transforming body
Body hovering
Over other worlds
Between sky and seafloor
Body buried
Back in touch
With nails
Dug into soil
Body sprung
Body grave
Home body
Quiet body
Still body
Decaying body
Flesh breaking body
Body eaten body
No more body
Body undone
Body remaking
Body recreating
Body universe
Body galaxy
Body star
Body dust
It is body
Body full
Of bodies
Full body
Endless
Bodies
