Great Barrier
Jan 20th, 2010 | By Connie Stadler | Category: Poetry | 303 viewsIn violet mutations, a coral reef grows
on once supple, needful skin.
Precisely timed birth convulsions
the hidden spiny urchin, seriate insufflate stone.
This aerate aquarium.
Ultimately human
access blocked by putrid petrifaction.
Evident, piercingly so.
Yet you, fool, reach out to tenderly brush
this prickle of cheek
Your wide eyed famine, drip-drip stump
evokes nothing.
It is what it is.
Luring lancet
peaks and crags.
Love’s steadfast
maceration.
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About Connie Stadler: Constance Stadler has published over 300 poems and three chapbooks in her ‘first manifestation’ as a poet twenty years ago, and has just released two chaps Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) Sublunary Curse (Erbacce) an eBook, Paper Cuts (Calliope Nerve). A new book Responsorials (with Rich Follett) will be released in fall 2009 (Neopoeisis Press). |
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