her back
HOW SIMILE WORKS
The drizzle-slicked cobblestone alleysof some city;
and the brickwork back
of the lumbering Galapagos tortoise
they'd set me astride, at the "petting zoo"....
The taste of our squabble still in my mouththe next day;
and the brackish puddles sectioning
the street one morning after a storm....
So poetry configures its comparisons.
My wife and I have been arguing; nowI'm telling her a childhood remini- scence,
stroking her back, her naked back that was
the particles in the heart of a star and will be
again, and is hers, and is like nothing
else, and is like the components of everything.
Albert Goldbarth
from To Be Read in 500 Years by Albert Goldbarth.
Copyright © 2009 by Albert Goldbarth.
All rights reserved.
Labels: albert goldbarth, bjo nordfeldt, charles maurin, federico zandomeneghi, ferdinand hodler, ishikawa toraji, kijiro kawai, maynard dixon, nudity, poetry
posted by lotusgreen at 5:58 PM
2 Comments:
As the Germans say, "auch ein schöner Rücken kann entzücken". Albert was right, a pretty back is a joy for ever, even in 500 years from now.
what a lovely thing to say. thanks for that, gerrie.
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