Thursday, April 21, 2016

#108 Kevin Brophy 'Yes, the armpit'

Ah, yes, the swampy armpit, it’s been like that, more or less,
Since they started digging soggy lumps of peat from fields.

Soft shadows are exposed when you lift your arm to bless
The lofty clouds for coming down or to raise some heavy shield.

Yes, the armpit, once believed to be the birthplace of those wings
We miss so much and still dream of recovering, so softly haired  

And sweetly stinking of whatever just now we’re truly feeling
The armpit brings to our human body its most human truth to share.


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