Jenny Eggleston http://www.eggleston-art.com Art Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:18:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Fig. 24 Eye for an Eye http://www.eggleston-art.com/poetry/fig-24-eye-for-an-eye/ http://www.eggleston-art.com/poetry/fig-24-eye-for-an-eye/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:55:45 +0000 jenny http://www.eggleston-art.com/?p=85 Fig. 24

Eye for an Eye

Would you listen to me?

LEAVE THE FIGS ALONE!

Crow cast an eye at my eye

Held it tight

And pulled the last ripe Fig…

BAM!

In a Figment of my imagination

I Shot the damn bird

And watched it rain black feathers

In a Glorious

Black dance

Against the summer blue sky

Heat

Waves

Rippled

The black feathers

So they spun like

Tightly tethered kites

Their trajectory changing

Rapidly

As did my soul’s

Which Darkened

My Blue eyes now Black

An Eye for an Eye

I made a big fat fig tart

And

Crowed about it.

Buddha sat under

My Fig tree

And shook his head.

Of course

He never tasted my fig tart.

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catch light and water

and lance leaf the bee

twisted under fringe and tattoos

never too yellow

Yellow Yellow Yelled

are her words

etched across her wrists

and spread petal ankles under her skirts

she drips long colored sounds

between the short breaths

of bee, bird and bug

songs

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breaking shells and wish bones
she licks his scraped knees
poking holes to heaven
stretched taut
above them
it was her
scent that caught him
while she bent the branches
of his legs
her skin
she leaves
flowers and fruit

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twisted tongues
in a divided sky
the swallow soars
and ether sinks
your words
rain in my mouth
twizler tweet and twirl
’tween my tulips
your humming bees
gone turnip
but you’re not
laud
you’re not.
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What a flower sees Incoming

Bows over string, A sweet Hum

For a tiger to land, Crisp claws on fragile Skin, That disappear inside

I want to see enlight

Like hind sight

No blind Ness In black holes that drink

In No thing left to chance, Can those eyes sense

So strong?

Could I see in reverse?

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so

Why

hide

Behind

the

Fig

leaf?

Do

not

hide

Step

Out

Be

proud

Your Round

ness

Your inherit

ance

when

You

Tasted

His

fruit

Eating Adam’

s

Apple

Is like

Apple

Pi

Any

way

you

slice

It will always

be the

same

A

Perfect

Creatio

n.

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Freaken’

Figgy

Out!

We Eat Tarts

Of Little Ovaries

Full of Seed

Ripe Red

Pockets

Of Sugar

Oh

O!

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