Rootworks
This is the length of tree
and this is the impression a tree makes of root
anaconda long, hooked buffalo thick, yak swayed.
Flame and earth broil over, wind throws out its back,
rain a thunderstorm without lightning, without darkness,
but thunder, lots of thunder
and later, rain a storm of darkness, without thunder,
but lightning, lots of lightning.
This is the length of bamboo,
this is the length of the language of symbol and shape
rumbling root free deep a wave at sea
hurdling forward to meet its lover
bloated with sand and polished pebble,
full of breath and sea, full of glass.
| Copyright © 2013, 2023 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
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