This Distance Poem by RIC BASTASA

This Distance

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this distance is killing me
and you confirm it
for it too is killing you and
we mean
that there is something going between us

distance kills but let me have some
bird-lips lots of birds-lips with wings
flying towards you
tonight in our mutual dreams
wet with rain
petals still dewy
warm fingers
and saucy lips

this distance cannot kill us now.
entwined in our dreams
i'll burst like a very ripe plum
to the ground
your mouth opens and catches me
and then
inside that dream you swallow me
whole
digest me
and i become some kind of a sap
running like red corpuscles
all over you.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Patti Masterman 02 October 2009

Wow. I love how a poet can take every day language and make it anything but ordinary. More like, extraordinary!

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