Blackbird Archive← v3n2, Fall 2004Poetry · Volume 3, Number 2
The Garden of Sex
This earth is sown
with salt. And it blossoms
wholly, beatified now by a thing
borne in the dust, undeniable,
tender. Its stark
rain still intimates.
It soothes and insists
that it never will stop. Why,
of course this ground trembles,
relentless. This wild garden grips
the stem of the brain. It
yields up the soft
blood's opaque, wet, spent
fruits. It looks out
past your skin's windowed
leaves. At the downpour’s
warm eye, this breathing terrain
simply swells. Rhizomes spread out,
eager and curiously calm.
What holds them's no more
than surrender that knows
it too will be fed.
