Their Cultures of Roots and Molds



…Pahn is lying in bed
with Ahstrild
He is comfortable    in the soft mattress
                                                 and white sheets 
 
He looks up adoringly                                             
at her round    full face    as she sits up playfully
                                                          leaning over him
                                   the covers sloughing off her back 
He wants to be nude with her                                    
and to pull her over his body
                                             like a blanket 
She is amenable                                
but gets up to do something first 
He takes his shirt off                                               
but she wanders out of the room
He thinks for a moment                                          
about her mother                               
                       who may be somewhere about the house 
He gets out of bed    and follows Ahstrild
                                                             into other rooms
while she attends to her tasks
 
                                                           After a while
she shows him the case in the hall   
where
beneath the glass and screen                                 
  there are stones                                                                     
     and small logs                                                                   
lying in earth                                                                        
or pans of water—                                                              
 
thin white filaments                          
creep up the edges of some
fleshy       
 patches                  
lie on others                                   
and some are like fine              
        fur                                        
                       
The molds are hers     she says   
the roots 
                                                         belong to her sister


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Some of these poems originally appeared in the following publications

Avocet
Dream International Quarterly
mojo risin'
The Muse Apprentice Guild (The MAG)
Transfer

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