Wednesday, January 11, 2012

ode to "containment"

I wrote my best poem at 18

when my thighs were thinnest

when we were all of us

launching forward

fevered on spindly legs

finally I’d kissed that boy

finally I’d be free

the solitude of childhood left behind

— but lonesome lasts, it turns out

selfs multiply, the world folds & unfolds

& the poem tumbled out

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