if endings are where reimagining begins
even prose poems especially poems with ragged margins
warn readers to be careful
of tripping
over
take “two women in a birth” out of Daphne Marlatt & Betsy Warland Double Negative
are off the train in order to be in the dessert no longer
the object of exchange but she-and-she-who-is-singing
(as the women have always sung) this body my
(d)welling place, unearthed.
Like dropping pennies
the one,
the other,
the one another
greek delta of triangular womanly form
at the threshold of phonecian dalet “door”
liminal (door) transformation (delta) possessed by an
enjambement uncovering the unearthed well placed dee
And so for day 56
07.02.2007