Sunday, December 6, 2009

Insect Soft

I am face down in the dirt
dreaming of soft moist bodies
sectional lives
cut in half and still moving

and of scurrying little multiplicities of legs
brushing together
in chirping songs of longing

hard little bodies
with soft little insides

softer still than my own hands
crushing iridescent little shells

painting my face in their remains

I am a God among insects
with now iridescent shells for eyes

Queen to beetles

whose love songs
carry over vast distant landscapes
and never ever end

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