THE YES SPOON

Lavish in bubbles and draw
your arm under,
waving away the slice
of a warm knife.
Exuberance: find in your glitter-warm
the moment of pain,
that circus of curtains untied and delivered.
Is that why you want to be chafing, reddened -
to remember the blue of cold caramelized flames,
the firework moments?
Madness, mirth, mmmmfood, the more and minute,
miniature words but the M sound of grandness,
the hissing, the froth, all the sounds of mimesis:
in them do you give your metaphors murmurs?
Feed yourself doll-sized crises
in order to photograph headwinds.

Written in 2007.

Poetry