The poems are liars. They will say and do anything, promise you anything, to make you feel exactly what I feel. But the feelings at least are real.

Monday, January 21, 2008

My God, Again

My God, again. Again I am lost
in this vortex of loving you.

And this hunger drawn taut
and arched like a bow above my stomach, catgut
stalking the long scowls of sewage
and strangle-fisted skies in search of food,
this hunger is nothing

but a disguise, distracting me
from the abalone sliver that flashes
in my chest, my heart staggers,
unfurred and blinking,
driven straight through.

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