Friday, January 29, 2010

The Bedroom is a Morgue

[Relaxation - MA Andrew]

Your wrists are a war I am afraid of losing

the back is a duck pond,
the backbones, the songs it sings out of its body,
beneath the ear sits Krishna eating an apple

The mouth is an orchard,
the teeth a monastery,
your lips a rosary.

Your voice, a big man I would follow over any mountain.
My eyelids are closet doors,
my eyes are skeletons

-Anis Mojgani
(Some lines and stanzas not quoted in full)

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