CORAL HULL: REED-SONG: EARLY POEMS: VOL 2
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I KNEEL BENEATH A MERCY TREE
WEEPING WITHOUT SOUND
TEARS SOAKING INTO THIGHS
I FALL SOONER THAN I EXPECT
INTO THE STRANGENESS OF DIRT
THROBBING AT THE BASE NOW
A FIRST GLIMPSE INTO A
PRIMORDIAL WORLD NOW WATCHING
FIERCE BARK ANTS RACING UPON
MY FOREHEAD NOW TOUCHING
A SAD WIND RUSHING
THROUGH MY BREAST I HEAR
THE SURRENDER OF CRYING
TIDES THAT DARK PULL
OF OCEAN ON SOUL I AM
ALL LIFE RUSHING INTO
MY OWN BREAST THEN JUST
RUSHING THE HARD TIRED
SPLINTERS OF TREE BARK
STICKING TO MY LIPS
ALWAYS I CRY OUT ALONE
BENEATH THAT TREE
BECOMING THE WINTER
YET THERE IS TOO MUCH TO
BARE I SURRENDER BENEATH
THAT TREE OF DESPAIR
IAM WEAK TAKE ME INTO
DARKNESS I SAY TO YOU
DARKLY ROTTING
IN THE GROUND BELOW
MUST I FOREVER LET GO
AND SCREAM TO LOVE | |

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