On the theme of slut
She is a River
right into her mouth i go
after timeless unpeelings of doorways
like centuries of unprocessed spider-web
defying gravity and molecular bonds
we burn what confuses the clocks, migrating birds,
stars spinning in circles unsure which way is out
she’s all mouth and all around me,
all strings i sitar, harp and contrabass
as if im a couple thousand pieces so long pretending unity but always drawing borders, twisting arguments,
sending names from greek to tibetan to algebraic
the mouth of the momentum of the vision
folding the world into a lung a river a bio magnetic vortex rinsing the sun in the moons explosive blood
star herbs dusting the sizzle of two mouths, many hands,
too great a breadth of skin to traverse in one life
Author Biography
The State I’m In, dan raphael’s 19thbook, came out 2/12. 2011 saw the release of Children of the Blue Supermarket, a CD from live performances with saxophonist Rich Halley and drummer Carson Halley. Current poems appear in Caliban, Otoliths, Blue and Yellow Dog, The Oregonian and Mad Hatters Review.