Tuesday, February 14, 2012

fresh sheets (title by r)


1
nursery.

baby powder bare
crispy bright white
receiving blanket white
swaddling
hopes for futures on
other soils
pressed innocence
helpless to a
threaded surface
orbs of coming days
behind crusty slits
their focus on linen canvas
bounty in the mainsail
of a crib.


2
night.

crease-less sheets
to be imprinted with the
moons and rivers of life
human forms on gravitational
earth. Above and below
fibrous threads
warm
with muddy swamps of thought
or
recollection
a glassy shard of lust
on a fold
in your brain
and now
wet
on a fold
in your stunning fresh sheets.


3
final.

Earth
her
fresh muddy sheet
warm
sun warm
earthworm warm fresh and sweet
with blood
insects torn apart
now give way
to a corpse heavy box
forked into her steaming throat
threads of root, grass
perfect count
fresh bed
eternity bed
final bed
dirty and pristine
shoveled in as angel arms.



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