Thursday, March 15, 2007

Unplanted

The burnt toast and peanut butter
__were the musk of summer days
__come creeping in their morning coats
__to lead me away,
____daring me to burn my soles
____on the hard-packed dirt roads
______leading to the beach
______with her cool blue, soothing hands
Blond-headed, I looked as if I had grown from the sand
__rooted in it
__but just for the moment:
____toes can break free of the ground, feet lift
__Relocate
__The sky might stand still, but
____I would not
Peanut butter in the corner of my mouth,
__tongue caressed
__Now these poor peanuts could move
____at last
__made mammal,
____they could see the sky
__The wheat→toast→me
____jumped into it

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