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2 poems - Rhiannon Thorne

9/22/2013

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The sky was present before you were born: a bulbous purpling fruit, rising and falling in and out of the damp ocean, the metronome slightly off - days slightly obliquing and waning. For years: the tides and the sun and the scurry of blood-things across the lands and through the waters. These were all here before you: the needled trees nestling pine cones and the man drowning soil with asphalt; the salt-licked star fish siamese split and rebirth; the baying of leftover elephants after ivory slaughters, their stacked funeral stones and the cousin pyramids of fallen gods; the hollow, haggard sound of death – they were cycling lazily through the years and you were an egg in your mother's belly, ready for a breach. Wings tucked into shoulder blades and feathers flat against your spine, you breathed and the world replied, "o' Comely, Comely, don't you cry." After: the black without night, lovers without the breath of skin, stainless steel teeth, the slow churning circle of a crow. The decision,


twenty seven:
the year stalking closer
til flight






With or Without the Postman

The post used to be lover's code,
stamps and timestamps and envelopes
pale and left to be licked
sticky with lust

I've heard that
lovers used to stamp them closed
hot seal wax
and signatures

Wait weeks
spend hours
rereading

Reply behind their spouses' backs
on parchments,
holding the paper to their breasts
and passing it, sweaty palmed,
into couriers' hands

And I'm jealous.

What I'd give
for just one
love poem.
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Denise Witthaus
9/24/2013 05:30:15 am

beautiful prose..haunting, deep and so much to feel...

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10/23/2013 08:43:57 pm

These were all here before you: the needled trees nestling pine cones and the man drowning soil with asphalt.

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