pulitzer
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Judy Prince
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> Poet-Bug Oppressed
>
>
> They want you, your thousand-eye view
> and they tip you past flattery's edge. You settle
> on your sage cushion, flash a tetrahedron glance
> admit them to synaptic closets.
>
> Their honey-tipped probes slip into
> sun-floating cells, film clicks,
> splicing angles, plumpudding cachet.
>
> Your antennae pert in their embrace
> convolving brain souped and tickled
> filaments cored and extracted
> you buzz down slumbering spirals
> wobbly clues hoaxed in scentless breeze.
>
> You try to fly but fail.
> You watch their mimicking flight,
> their biceps tattoed with your wing designs.
>
> From your darkest cell
> an image blinks: your crawling body caught
> in their coveting amber---
> jaw stretched in silent shout.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> by jbprince
>
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