choose an element. each of u will create a poem that explores intimacy. your poem must somehow relate to the element u chose. the relation can be literal, metaphorical or abstract. one more rule. your poem must be written from the perspective of the opposite gender. -mary jane burns
like taut goat skin
i beat his shango drum
stoking the flicker
of flames raging
in the warrior priest’s
temple
make worship
of bronze
and molten metal
we smelt
the weapons
of civilization
preparing post-haste
to renew earth
on the eve
of his return to adam
alas
apples
and serpents
again
usurp us
as he coupled
hands and fingers
’round the root
of an
extraterrestrial
being
i saw once fertile soil
compost
compounded
on the rule of 72
form stony igneous
and scorch cities
under the effusive
flowing of lava
and the ashes
of the aftermath
held a moment
still in time
before man
was made mud
once more
also
in god’s image
a formless
dark matter
never again
to take shape
in the space
of my own
infinity
issheisorissheaint?!?
the aoladyfingers