Friday, February 9, 2007

what is the significance of an egg, a tomato, a watermelon, and a baby?

what is the continuous thread
the one that slides across the skin of an eggplant
dark and slick and tight
the one that pierces through to its white raw meat
out to the otherside and around a hot steamed white bun,

what is the continuous thread
the one that runs from the bun
under the wet dish and to his old dry hands
shaking,

what is the continuous thread
that kisses the mouth of the child
and trembles from the air that softly rushes
from her two small nostrils,

what is the continuous thread
that knots itself around the buttons
of your mother's red cardigan
slips through the sleeve
and into your hair,

1 comment:

L said...

i enjoy the specificity of each of these little mini-episodes. they're very distinct in textures and surfaces: slick and tight, hot steamed, wet, dry, tremble, soft, knots, cardigan, hair, etc.

i'm wondering if the following verses need the first repeated line. and do you mean "what is the significance..." in the title?