
This selection, chosen by Guest Curator H.V. Cramond, is from & watch how easily the jaw sings of god by Ashley Cline, released by Glass Poetry Press in 2021.
hungry for orchids, or how your mouth blooms in august
consume me piecemeal / halve my body
like honeycrisp apples or something more holy
lonely lonely lonely, love, love me
reconstruct me at sea level & call it
a homecoming, teacup girl—
milk-drunk on orchids & starving
consume me piecemeal / splinter my bones
into tinderbox fledglings dressed up in
gossamer fur & call me wilderness call me
impossible call me we hurtle we hurtle
we hurtle we hurt, teacup girl—
bury your calcium howls here, beneath
the blueberries & halogen of my typewriter teeth
& consume me piecemeal / bring my hands
to your lips & watch how the earth builds
us a god we can call whole.


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