Black Flowers by Doug Ramspeck

Author:Doug Ramspeck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE BODY’S MUD

My brother raised the question, at sixteen,

how anyone might make love to the same person

for a lifetime, suggesting, in his tone,

that years were a basin of water into which

the body cleansed itself for decades, the sloshing

liquid growing ever more muddy and fouled.

But today, at the base of the creek that stops

at the edge of the woods along our property,

my wife is lifting rich loam in shovelfuls

to carry in the wheelbarrow back to the garden,

where tomatoes will later grow

in such profusion we won’t know how

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