Priya Huffman reads one of her poems from the book ‘Bone and Breath’.
had I not
been sheltering
from a savage sun
I may not have seen
the slow muscular unfolding
inching its way towards me
over cedar sawdust, tiny antennae
twitchingly attuned to danger and light
it too needed shelter, its fat
viscous body too exposed
for a sharp bright world
as was Dayna’s first poem
pale words
newly born
without skin
and how smoothly
her voice gathered
with each new poem
stretching open wide
with the sheer daring
of it all
compelled forward
to the cool spot
the banana slug’s ridged
back flattened by stretch
gathered by contraction
its rhythm measured
its poem ancient.
Priya Huffman – author of ‘The Territory of Home’ and of ‘Bone and Breath’. priyahuffman.com
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