Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Beware of That Flash of Knowing Lit in Woman’s Eyes

“They promised God’s Word

but everyone was sold once

they realized it was always

about flesh and that they can

eat of it as much as they want.”

 

Even though, and on the whole,

the woman is folded in the words

during the day, by the eventide

her word would become flesh,

 

and its feel and sound will find

or compose charms of rhythm,

cadence, and fast-tracked pulse

to tie as one a twirling of the two.

 

Or is it a mere nod or a naked stare

that summons notes from forty winks,

some hazy dash between word and flesh

 

and thus, neither this nor that, but something

that always plays a part of both—as if all are

as apt to move with ease—from poetry to prose?

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