Free verse № 142687
Cry
I do it for a happyâcry,
I do it
when I have to:
when the knot
under my chest bone
feels like it
will spew up my throat
and dollop â splat â
onto the floor,
my mouth still open
from the appearance
of this mysterious belly-knot
thatâs been rooted
behind my breasts.
I cry when
no conclusions
are made -
boney shuttering shoulders
and lonely back porch
to spill onto. My hands
are over my eyes,
holding them in,
face in sinâ¦red blotches
and runny eyeliner.
The mourning that bellows
from my lips,
rises uncontrolled in upward sifts,
as God
culls my rueful song waves upward
with weary sailor arms.
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I do it
when the knot
under my chest bone
swells
when it spews up my throat
dollop â splat
onto the floor,
mouth still open
from a belly-knot
I cry when
no conclusions
are made -
boney shuttering shoulders
and lonely back porch
to spill onto, hands
over my eyes,
face in sin, red blotches
and runny eyeliner.
The mourning that bellows
from my lips,
rises uncontrolled,
as God
culls my rueful song
I never imagined "God's wife (note on the capitilization) would be such an unhappy person - dissappointing. Hmmm. I will make sure to check out your poetry, that is what I will learn what "real talent" consists of...right?
Good luck to you.
I also have a question (instead of diving straight in with criticism) about the penultimate line. 'Song waves' is confusing. It could be song waves (as in sound waves, in which case I'd hyphenate it to show it's a compound noun). Alternatively you're talking about the mourning waving upwards ('The mourning that bellows from my lips...waves upward'). If so, it needs some punctuation after 'song'.
That's it for crits, now for what I liked. 'Knot under my chest bone...' and then 'mouth still open from the appearance' work well, as does 'shuttering shoulders' (and the rest of that passage).
Overall, enjoyable.
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