Nathanael Verrill Poems

Print the Poem
Undress it slowly with your eyes
Embrace her hard and soft
Sounds with a sultry tongue.
...

I fell from the moon
but you caught me
in your armpit.
Safe
...

the birth of a daughter
afects a man
from the time he first sees
her little hands.
...

I want you to wrap yourself around me
Put every ounce of you upon me.
Back and forth
Rolling, rocking
...

Oh, wet earth.
Swallow me whole
As the sand does the lonely tears and rain drops.
Oh, night sky.
...

The smell of wet, fresh split red oak carries in the cold air around me.
Thud, thud, crack, crunch!
Another piece flies away from the ax
Ready to dry, then ready for flames.
...

Sometimes, in bed I lie
against you
Pressed up against you; skin to skin
Making heat, not love
...

It's amazing what's exposed when the walls topple over.
Over and over the blows they came.
Followed by brick by red brick. The walls went up.
To prevent more pain from persevering
...

I can't drown today the normal way
I can't curl up today and sleep it away
my music isn't ringing my immaterial soul, my soul is sluggish and grey
I can't break hold, the hold this has on me.
...