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Kim Parko: Origin2.2

May 31, 2020 by PBQ Leave a Comment

*

I made

a salve
to spread

over anger

that seeped

______from me

 

I put

the sun in wax

and oil

to tame it

______then went to

______the wells

______of my skin

 

ladled out

the dust

 

______I had

______become

 

 

*

I made

a mask

______with antlers

branching

up

into the sky

The mask

______is a portrait

that I wear

under the way

I look

______In places where

____________lightening has

__________________struck ground

the earth fuses

to glass roots

reaching through

the strata of

accumulated

time

 

Sometimes I imagine

______I am

______powerful

 

 

*

I made

a nightgown of shapes

____________to draw the fire

from me

 

A circle

______is oldest

____________A triangle

Is strong

 

______I put the nightgown on

lay in bed

__________knuckles

______piled

____in the triangle

beneath

my navel

 

______As I slept

a thread

______of smoke

______through the circle

around

my heart

 

 

 

 

*

I made

a small cloth

twin

but not capable

of violence

and I cradled it in

a bulb
that I put
in a hole
in the earth

 

I chanted

over the fresh-

dug wound

until I forgot

____________my
______hard

bone and soft

______sponge of marrow

 

Someday

soon

 

Someday

soon

 

Someday

soon

 

Someday

soon

Filed Under: Issue 100, Poetry, Poetry 100 Tagged With: Kim Parko

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