Thursday, September 7, 2017

Kerri Shying R # 321 - Floraphagy


Floraphagy

what happens if you
don’t eat      I can tell you

first your stomach
grows less             shrinks from

a bubble
to a dish of honey walnut

all words now
just the colours

not the tastes                         interior
small noises    feel quite pleasant            oh

at some time the sense of being thoughtless
descends            a vague tap on the small door

of the brain by a frantic mouse
says you want to eat              the door

stays locked             I have to lumber up
using energy I don’t have

thinking with my drained brain
standing in the kitchen

knowing I have to eat            to tick that box
outside I look at pots of Cosmos flowers

waving in the fierce winds
set there to remind me

nothing grows
in thin air               everything has roots

in soil             the small hairs feasting on the tasties
borne in water  held in crumbs  I seize the roll

I’m eating now
I’m off

1 comment:

  1. think of Buddha with the one grain of rice and the single sesamum

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