22.10.08

from Fall 2008 Issue...

Melissa Buckheit

White Goddess


How long you sleep
female without a head,

head
now piled sand by a friend in capris.


Say the head is separate from the body.

On this shore (Pacific), I house bliss drowning one

languages,
squares whose perimeters do not complete
run ninety degrees drop

off the face,

reappear as rosebush in Chinatown balcony—


Fire-lantern
I grip your neck,

not yet alive I

while the poet lies beside you
caresses your ear, educates Sun

I am the eye
the poet disinherits

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