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Dark-in-Light
Then out of the pith of matter
thought
flame of good and reason
blearing the curved whistle of sky--
the stir in the ear of God said
bloom and breathe
the bellied fire of hell does not reach
here
wind like an immortal diamond
spread over the ball-knots
of disputing planets
and the whirl and whorl of stars
while the symmetrical
and the
unsymmetrical
entreated molecules atoms gases
like blood-gush and the first
flitches
of fern came forth
the beautiful blossoming yellow sun, the whitened
and swaled feathers of
birds
rose
the sound was like several strong trills
a keening sound,
distillation of torment
others say it was the way waves whip and smack
or
the sliding of axes, a caterwaul
wild hollow sound of grinding
that
shook the lovely dumb
silence
dusk sheared itself from dawn with fumings
and quickenings,
leaves like eyelids, petals, slow- take
of wimpled
water, purple-of-thunder
this was thought unraveling
and how wisdom sprang
this
was how the sleek-mothering earth began
dated with seasons
inscape of spin and settle, justifiable swoon,
desire's blue-beat
and the animals showed their moon-bellies
with the exception of the two who thirsted
almost forsaken
until they reconciled, fawning with their tongues
the holy
well of what all flesh
was meant for.
Corpus Luteum
Collapsed follicle,
yellow body,
sun-honeyed
in your pelt of womb,
tidal-keeper of the strange
and wonderful
ovum, metamorphosing
like a god
into almost nothing.
Builder of walls
and lakes, layer
of the earth itself
with its cavities
and arteries,
warm welcoming
bed, tropical
as spring
in California,
insouciant and
glistening. Everything
inside the woman
like a rain cloud
bursting with fever,
its want, its
need to multiply,
nurture and thrive
then settle;
body finding new land
like a dove, wanting
the pearl to adhere
break from its
radiate crown,
break and enter
that dangerous
outer world
and become.
Leonore Wilson's poems have been featured in Poets Against the War, Third
Coast, Madison Review, English Journal, Poet and Critic, Quarterly West,
Poetrybay, etc.
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