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McCarra/Poetry

with practical hands

she strips the petals of the artichoke,

braving the thorns to reach the heart

and hope, thinking not of those

evening meals purely disdained, their

very essence a botch-blotch upon florid china,

twice-vitrified, steeled through

fire, furnace hellish, roaring

orange, beating against the bricks, and,

abstracted, she registers the days, dates, she

has had his kiss, a single

column of black digits totted up as she

strips the petals away

to reach the heart, that

green secret of hope and love,

ever springing up, the spear-blade of

grass snaking up between two slates of

pavement, heavy as gravestones, and

she exhales as bleak

November blows coldly into icewhite

December and

forced merriment in a public square

blared over by klaxon horns,

massed crowds braying for a handful

of sweets

so much better, so much tastier, the

secret heart of love at her core,

when all was

finally stripped away,

simmering, as if bathed in the

light of summer, the thick gold she

held in her hands, proffered when

all that was extraneous

had been shorn away,

leaving the heart naked, ready for

the tearing of teeth, the savoring

of scent again, a

marking down of minutes, hours, weeks,

months, years, the curious timetable of

numbers, scripted, catching together, all

a-tangle,

a fine mess of figures, and, in

each one a thought, a pang, a

breath lost, a tear shed, those

sins of omission, venial, that dog

her heels, snapping, unwilling yet to hear

ego te absolvo,

graceless, stateless, a mote of dust

caught for a moment in his glance

before the wind bears her

into the back of beyond,

the eternal that is love, and love

only

too long a sacrifice/

can make a stone of/

the heart/

her heart-stones clink-chink against each other,

making that bright music she rises to

each morning, the cup glancing against the saucer,

the flames reaching up, blue-bright,

under the kettle, warm her face, her

flesh is as many fields, her words a

dowry,

her touch a promise, unspoken still

Source: http://mccarra--poetry.blogspot.com/2018/01/practical-hands.html

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