04-21-2017, 12:09 AM
Midas
Wanting is a worm in desperate
search of a more delicious apple.
It feasts only to grow hungrier
with each bite, then steals
the tender meat of the grape
from my mouth makes it roll
inside me like a stone,
chews the scent from roses,
and leaves the dimples of fingertips
across my daughter’s back—
still it burrows.
Wanting is a worm in desperate
search of a more delicious apple.
It feasts only to grow hungrier
with each bite, then steals
the tender meat of the grape
from my mouth makes it roll
inside me like a stone,
chews the scent from roses,
and leaves the dimples of fingertips
across my daughter’s back—
still it burrows.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson