Blue-Melon Shores
-stephanie pope
zoe!
is it
the eyes
having the phrases
of the fill pasturing the moon
the way the grass sees her
is it
the hunger
of an appetite living
low
feeding upon the bread flesh of its own
well bred
is it the thirst wetting the roots
hungry for its own tuberous thighs
thighs
that will give to all these things
an experience of love's embrace
as what they are
O how made from they are
made from that turning
of the one in the other as
the one which is neither and both
and becoming
a plant-man
a tree
a cosmos
like me and not me
if they start the world again
how will it grow
zoe!
it will grow down
and if it does
and does that well enough
the world will grow up
and grow old
and die again
and I, having they seeded just so
will recede, too
like the ancients of blue melon shores



for the plant man image see here

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