The Scrotal Sac, the Garlic Bulb

The scrotal sac, the garlic bulb,

the sacrum and the ilium and their
associated ligaments, the backward

forward pivot of the ankle, foot

and knee, all balled and budded,
nippled, fleshed, and ripened on a tree,

wrapped up in apple skin and lizard

hide, astride the breasts and muscles
of the bride, the roominess inside

the blooming  groom, the scything

of a sigh into an unconsidered breath,
the histologically complex kiss of death,

exhuming body truths of fishes, figs

and ferrets, marmosets, root vegetables,
monkeys, parrots, garnet, granite, freshly

incarnated newts, carnations, penises

and fruits and lava flows, and guavas,
roses, noses blowing in the bumbling

wind: no one’s sinned but everybody

who would dare to take a form
and stumble out into the storm.









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