THE SEAL MOVES BLIND UPON HER MOUTH (PART II)

 

 

 

As birds snow wristlet into dusk

                                    sweetly her mouth gold and ornamented

parts blind inside the circle                             trembling

over water to

                                                            whip this grain does hollow

sky yet she is fire yearning where hunt at apex

excites                                                             the starless plane

 

cleaved to womb

                                                                                    transcended

 

the soul wandering to depth becomes annihilation

 

I search the outermost circuit

serpents burrow into flesh

awakening                               the blossom

sunlight dimmed on grass

cold                 thy darkness

 

reverence her              reverence reverence

reverence her              reverence reverence

reverence her              reverence reverence

reverence her              must ever eyes unstitch

 

                        the pathway                            eternal body.

 

 

 

 

Christopher Brownsword's first full-length collection of poetry titled Icarus Was Right! will be published by Shearsman books in October 2010.