To Return to Desire, Return to Its Mouth
GodbruiseGodplum
Godspace:
You’ve held a blankness
in you you’ve kept
a crown for holiness
(what loiters, what delights).
The Lord’s gullet paved with echo: yet I:
I am not focused on the tower of language.
How hours bent.
The filth, slate-clean.
Darling, you are not hereyet. You have not
wintered your lover’s shadow,
suckling. How sweet
to fool yourself into vows.
Vow a little
deliciousness upon
me: I’ve flung my tongue toward love
most selfishly.
A bruise on a plum.
Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Prize.