Because we all want to write more poems.
Anatomy lesson
- It’s all about food, you see.
Here are the legs: - they take you to food and run you
away from being food for something else. - And the arms of course:
- they gather up food, prepare it for use,
bring it to the mouth— - Pretty obvious, that one:
it’s all built around the mouth;
the whole design is based on a food tunnel—
in one end, out the other. - Oh, and it never stops being food, no!
Once it leaves you, it’s just food for something else. - The hands are a special case
because they not only handle food
directly, intimately, they also do other things
complex things, elegant and violent
and astounding things— - mostly related to the acquisition
and protection of food, of course.
The art-making? Yes, correct! It’s really about food:
isn’t art a form of worship? and what more profound
worship than that of Food, the Life-giver?
- Ah! and here in the center, hidden
in darkness and wet mystery: the heart
moving the food throughout, sending it everywhere,
nothing left untouched, unnourished,
so no cell is guiltless, all must buy in,
all complicit in the quest.
Yes, heart— - incubator of motion, marshall of will,
drumbeat of the hunting party,
coxswain of this longboat,
metronome to the unending cause.
Lovely thing.
Well, I’m getting sentimental.
Here, take it. Go ahead, try it on—
give it a whirl, see how it feels;
I’m certain you’ll like it.
And remember this:
though it seems that way,
it’s not really all about food.
- Benjamin Gorman's Shared Poems
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Comments
Michele McFadden
December 25, 2012
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Anatomy Lesson
Such a facility with words and thoughts you have. :-)
Michael Mayhew
December 26, 2012
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I like this
Very engaging - and I like the u-turn at the end. Should have expected it - but wasn't.