Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Our Lady of the Blanky


O heavy cheeks, ripe plums
Lolling fatness royal and holy
Allyn, patron saint of wiggle
Of berry toes for plucking
Wholly round, miracle of milk.
At tooth’s edge, pearl struck sand
And broke. She cried for joy,
Interruption of hunger
Nameless and without end.

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