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Click to enlarge picture Click to enlarge picture. Two Poems
by
Pippa LIttle


 

 



Hot Vents

sky pours down
sunless tonnage

six-rayed souls
wallow and suck

your cold seeps
greedy for marrow

horned spiked grinder
of holdfast, homescar

prised loose
fine grains, lost bearings

soft underparts fall open
labial rifts

inkwater fills from dark to light
tributaries multiply

stone forests
scoured-out gorges

worm-forms writhe at the hot vents
ten thousand deep

worlds and stars
beyond burnishing


Handspeak
for Luljeta Leshanaku


The deaf man makes words with his hands,
each hard and straight as a varnished bench,
builds sentences the way men build clocks
or bicycles, loving and exact.

Meaning is real, he says, it hangs in the air
and holds its shape.
Each word depends for its life upon its brother.

Today I thought of you
in the same breath.
For you, too, words are hard-won.
They taste of mineral rain, of loneliness, of smoke.
Stubborn, they refuse to yield.

Monumental, womanly,
they embed themselves in my body.