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Saturday, August 20, 2011

rita


inside my head is

prairie dust and spiders

no wonder rita

has breasts as big as boulder colorado

and spreads her legs before me

like a mountain valley

with lands to be burrowed

and encloses her furrows gripping the plow

to capture every last glacial drop

no wonder rita

controls my mind

and clears the cobwebs

fucking it to fertility

2 thoughts:

Rebecca said...

This is a very vulnerable piece of writing for you. It isn't often you leave yourself so exposed in your poetry. I like it, though.

Rita sounds like a keeper, at least for one or two things, anyway.

It's good to clear the cobwebs and the sorrow ('til there's none...), so they say, right? You say it is a control of your mind, but I'm pretty sure it is a lot more than that, but this is good. Very good.

Lastly, you are SO my favourite poet, but can you kindly leave out any spiders or the like out of future poems? Thanks! :)

peter said...

okay, but fertile prairie dust stays. rita does too, ha.

well, thank you, i think? i don't want to appear too naked. :)