Poetry: To My Body - Some of You Has Had More Light

Published in Anti-Heroin Chic, December 2019

TO MY BODY - SOME OF YOU HAS HAD MORE LIGHT

 

A gathering of earthy deposits

I would sit here

among your many river-stone selves

watching your personal shift 

of cartilage on granite on moss.

I know now the worn unlovedness of you

the tearstruck slick of you

how the quartz in your heart glitters and scars.

 

I touch the perfection of your unholy edges

capture how your mind has cauterised

’til you spill to the spaces between.

 

I lift up through the compressed weight of you

fall into cave-dark love with you.