ponder pain's purpose
fetuse that refuses to grow
and the stillborne-bearer
and the women once called barren
artifact of earth-moon Dyad
Let's swim to the moon, he said
Education of blood and tissue
education in obedience
whose thoughts do fly
but require more lift
from balconies
whisper about child
palliatives
all the while standing
auteur of misery, bliss
quoting tidal chaos ... improve that
miracle of astrophysics
but no divine voice
uttered this curse
July 2011