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Nature kills baby (a poem for All Hallows)

Nature kills baby (a poem for All Hallows)



our love wore a silencer

but it still fired a soul,


you carried

my baby like

a bullet baby,



then the devil in the detail

pulled apart DNA's angel hair,


as cells unraveled

as the blood tripped,


as birthday candle

turned back to bee,


as bone crumbled chalk

into the mother board,


as the tears grew hard

in the corners of our eyes

I snuggled you in my arms

and you sang me too little sleep

with a lullaby for the never lived.



jgh(C)2008

Sing the song of all ►

Comments

darren thomas

Wed 29th Oct 2008 09:54

What I enjoy about your poetry Mr jgh, is that, it takes such a long determined suck before you arrive at the good bits. Rather like those stubborn boiled sweets with delicious soft-centers.
Like my mother once said, if anything is worth suckin' - it's worth suckin' well.

NB - please don't be perturbed about the potential for euphomism in the above!

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