Among my Saturday morning delights is poeming, as my friend Ace calls it. I set aside this morning each week because I have the house to myself and it’s not a workday, therefore no guilt possible. Some people clean their houses on Saturday; I clear my brain of metaphors by getting them on paper. The house can wait. Some do laundry; I rinse myself with the air on my deck while catching images and essences. The poetic flow is much harder to set than the spin cycle.
And chocolate can really jump-start a poetry session.
By the way, there is a website called Creativity and Chocolate. What’s it about? That other thing that makes me happy on a Saturday: fashion! And here’s a poem about another thing that makes me happy.
Kisses
Nissa speaks in kisses.
A dog’s mouth isn’t made for English,
so she sounds her vowels with swipes
of tongue – that best pink instrument.
She covers the face, the lips
from which my voice emerges
and patiently investigates
the curves, tasting the salt
of meaning behind my ear,
pressing on the place
that looses my giggles,
which I am sure she knows
as her real name.
~ From Gods of Water and Air, Rachel Dacus (Aldrich Press 2013)
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