Wasn’t It Kind of Wonderful?
Men as water
slipping between women
as broken fingers
Men as the cactus plants
women as burning kitchens
used for oxygen
Men as prodigal sons
Men as germination
seed firing from outside itself
reaching towards women as the sky
Men as sunlight
confined to the nature of falling
on humans in prison grounds
Women as the ground
Women as penny sweet wrappers
to be torn open by children
as Andy Dufresne
Women as weak currency
in circulation
gold bodies bent into palms
folded into dark spaces
Children as ceiling fans
tangled in hot air mothers
Children as fish in tanks
Children as bottled water
Children as suitcases
Children as sliced fruit
Children as wilting plants to be sold
eventually dying at tables and desks
Humans as two hands of the same body
picking itself apart
Humans as worker bees and honeycomb
