Wednesday, July 14, 2010

And We All Know What That Will Be Like Valentine

Laying down
layer upon
layer of silica
we build up
our horns
our petals
what was living
dies into something
sensible and useful
as a listening device
as the forms fall
out of their ideas
as eggs and embryos
to be worked on
to become flexible
as a flower
to a higher
desire.

2 comments:

William Keckler said...

I had to click when I saw the great title.

The poem lives up to it.

Nice.

But that's a Borat "nice."

As in niiiiiiiiize.

xo

Peter said...

Thanks, Bill. I heard that phrase somewhere in Califorsaken last week and had to find a place for it.