dense as marble, your body
is something to hold onto
after years of chasing shadows,
thin reedy men whose leavetakings
were their legacies, fashioning
(maybe by accident) crude sharp tools
with which to stab my heart.
look at it today,
made thick by crisscrossing
scar tissue. have you ever seen
anything so beautiful
that was broken but
unbroken? here, feel
the heft of it in your palm.
Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 8:11 AM UTC
dense as marble, your body
is something to hold onto
after years of chasing shadows,
thin reedy men whose leavetakings
were their legacies, fashioning
(maybe by accident) crude sharp tools
with which to stab my heart.
look at it today,
made thick by crisscrossing
scar tissue. have you ever seen
anything so beautiful
that was broken but
unbroken? here, feel
the heft of it in your palm.
