Hear hear what my physical body knows
Is wise
Is wisdom
What garments cover this body
That knows a turn of course like a thought
What voice brings the discontent
Of blood and vein
Yes
Yes what blood brings about this question
Is it blood in my brain that makes the knowledge that overtakes me
What unearthly piece hooks into another
Oh I thought I was one thing
I was another
O I thought I was alive
I wasn’t
I thought you heard a living thing
You heard nothing
But your own voice whispering
Into a belly cave
That is no longer here
No it is no longer here or anywhere
from Poetry Northwest 06.1 Spring & Summer 2011More by Dorothea Lasky from the library
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