I'm back to writing a poem every day, whether they stink or not.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Cut

I sliced my hand on a broken glass,
between the ring and middle fingers,
but it didn’t bleed right away, it opened
up and I saw deep inside my hand.
The torn fat was white and looked
like a web spun by dream-spiders–
as though the soul lived in the hand.
I turned away from fear, the way Moses
turned from the face of God, and then
the wound filled with sudden blood.

1 comment:

Rod said...

With me, there is always that command-z moment where I try to go back in time.