The Milk of Almonds by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-08-17T20:01:21+00:00

Part Five

TRANSFORMATIONS

I Can Be Bread

Anne Marie Macari

It was him with his fear of swords.

It was him with his cold skin,

his sunken eyes, his crooked smile,

his love of honey, anything

sweet, really. Anything fragrant.

Who else but the celibate could show

the way. It was him naked,

frail, his body worn, eaten by pain,

his body ecstatic, its thick

hairs holding the light.

Him with his arms out, his eyes

oozing, the light killing him.

Him with his puckered penis,

his bare feet in the cold

stream where he relieves himself,

O lion barking back. O

bloody hand on my breast.

The light has many names,

many dreams, he steps farther

into the water. Light

side-stabs him. I offer my mouth.

I offer my spread legs. I

can appear or disappear

in the water. I can torture

him with honey. I can be

bread. I can kneel. I can

carry my own bed. The light

has many names. I can

be naked, unafraid. I can be

in the same stream or I can

walk away, a lion

barking back, squatting, dripping

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