Switched-on Gutenberg Issue 16
Assemblage
 
 
Mavka #29.

 
Tatiana, Moya Dusha,          tonight’s too cold for walking
but crowning the westerly          pines Venus and her swallows
 
        *
 
Miles Davis on DVD          blows from 1959
 
        *
 
on the woodstove pipe, Christmas          lights, stars, plastic icicles
a hummingbird’s grassy nest          and an Irish wishing stone
 
        *
 
I break two cereal bowls          and a wine glass, kissing your
eidolon washing them—a          shard stings my finger—I’m so
glad my daughter didn’t see          she’d have gladly laughed at me
 
        *
 
because of your freckles, love          because we’ve both lost parents
because of my beginnings          in you, this awakening
 
        *
 
you are my intoxicant          I would make you my shelter
 
        *
 
I have seen lights in these woods          Dionysos awakes, a
deep-rooted vine crosses two          worlds, we its clustered berries


Copyright 2010,  Padma Thornlyre

Padma Thornlyre lives and writes in the canyon village of Kittredge, Colorado, where he lives in a Habitat for Humanity home with his daughter and two cats. Employed at Creekside Cellars, an award-winning winery in nearby Evergreen, Padma is also the co-founder of Turkey Buzzard Press.



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