The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 12/12/06)

[RetroLounge]

For my sake, the world was created

We found out by accident though if
love is entirely accidental then
the things that follow should also be.
We laid crumpled, defeated by the bodies
we used for language and tried
so hard to share — the borrowed
rib, the salt and ashes. If we were truly
primal; if we were Yahweh’s first proof
of concept we’d know time through
our biorhythm, counting where our
skin is thinnest: the inside wrists, the whale
bone jaw. Our hearts are for more than pressure
and pressed together you couldn’t help but
follow. We settled a soft one two, one
two, one two three. The way one forgets the
sound of his own breathing, so too did we
forget this. The thunderstorm was just as easy.

Jonathan Chin


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[reyd reid reed]

1. Oh, how lovely...

I like the contrast...the gentle pace that speaks of something soft and yet, at the same time, unyielding beneath.

Thank you.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Retro........

This is lyrical, and lovely......

Love in the time of our ancestors.......

Thank you......:pals: :hug: