cesspool goes two metres deep
but we make ripples at our chests connected together
on tippy toes,
splashing fuzzy green mud into earlobes and eye sockets
while apple lips bite into each other-
vacuum tube of symbiosis, carbon dioxide exchange.
someone's moving mouth was messy
spitting fruit seeds onto the lake's grassy rim
and a tree twisted up from the ground bearing a bounty of rubies:
plump pomegranates bending scrawny boughs
tickling the scalp of our dirt-dusted heads
to look up and admire juicy red treasure,
hung above in place of cloudless sky and naked sun,
is glittering bliss
as we swallow fleshy seeds, orange blood trickles down.
this was once a lagoon
seabed in ivory sand sprouting pink coral cast in dazzling azure waters
sunlight raining down cutting deep through liquid crystal without stirring its stillness
golden halo dome a shining shield protecting this unmoving, sacred pool.
man,
his skin hidden under a finger-deep layer of filth crusted over,
was to dip himself in and leave behind black sin
blessed light bathing his new baby bright skin
glistening, shimmering,
every pore injected with holy water
every vessel a honey milk stream
and from watermelon lips, blessings and praises dripped forth.
now,
it is an opaque brown soup
for years and years of cleansing baptism leave residue
murky eddies swirl and collide underneath
fat goopy bubbles bursting at the surface
staining our attached skin with flecks of mud
hair is a new home for moss
and we smear grime into our skin like they belong on our bodies.
i hear God's footsteps thrushing through pliant grass and my eyes fly open
i look at you
you look at me
then we pluck fistfuls of leaves from the branches to dress ourselves.
(remix of an old deleted poem)
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Poetryan ongoing collection of the love poems of nobodi. the full anthology of nobodi's poetry, "i'll never be a poet", can be found on wattpad as well.
