helloβpoetry
Classics
Words
Blog
F.A.Q.
About
Contact
Guidelines
© 2025 HePo
by
Eliot
Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads.
Become a member
Deanna M Zarrillo
Poems
Apr 2017
Your name is malleable and easily tongued
Your name
is malleable and
easily tongued --
against my
cheek.
Is it
not the case that --
just before --
it was ether
in the cables above
this mov
-ing
train?
Vowels get dampened
and the rest
get
stuck
between my
teeth.
I can
roll your name into
a ball
with my tongue.
Press it to the roof
of my mouth --
lull it --
around and
feel it vibrate
with a hu-umm.
Do I dare part
my lips and let it
sublimate
once again?
Bring this moment
to a
close with
an
utterance?
How oft have I
spoken it,
with sheer neglect
& ignorance
of its
taste.
Written by
Deanna M Zarrillo
Stony Brook, NY
(Stony Brook, NY)
Follow
π
π
π
π
π
π€―
π€
πͺ
π€
π
π¨
π€€
π
π’
π
π€¬
0
474
Please
log in
to view and add comments on poems