UTTERING THE WORDS OF LIFE
Last night when I
licked the wet walls
of your mouth’s cave,
nibbled the sweet
shells of your ears,
palpated the soft creamy
down of you,
and slipped inside you
between your peaches…
I became a secret cannon.
A huge tube of steel!
Cunning symbols wrought thereon.
My swelling balls
the spherical wheels.
And I discharged from
the mountaintop to
the great all-encompassing
lake beneath.
Became the cannonball
then a pinball
rushing through tubes,
mazes and passageways.
Then with a great spurt
of red fire gushed
fire-workingly through your head
with a shout! Aieeee!
And you breathed:
‘I’m coming! I’m coming!’
Me, I hurtled through air
still rising!
Till, reaching the zenith
of my whirling arc;
I plunged,
fell with grace,
disappeared o’er
the crested ridge
and landed with a thud
in a field of disinterested cows.
The ball I was flattened
on the sweet earth,
its grey skin merged
into hands, eyes, legs.
On the faint breeze
wafting from the next valley
I heard your voice,
laden with urgency,
uttering the words of life:
‘I’M COMING! I’M COMING!’
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