A contemporary poem about the ground agrees, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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I expected the ground to reject us. Instead it received every awkward angle. Your shoulder, my knee, the borrowed blanket— nothing had to become elegant. Below the body, the earth kept saying yes. Above it, we learned that tenderness can be a physical law.
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A thing without a practical name resists ownership and remains open to a less instrumental way of seeing.
A contemporary poem about the way the body misreads, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A contemporary poem about two things stay down, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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