5.12.2021

sins that no one talks about anymore

What I give you tomorrow 
you already have. 
It’s absorbed and blended 
into a larger and more eternal: 
I die for you each day. 
 
Lamenting in the tank, 
absorbed is the sand, 
O tenderness of blood and birds 
searing my temples, my young head: 
the recurring storm of youth 
                     wrecks my sins. 
 
The sun over branches 
over the open flesh of dawn 
kissing the hands of migrant farmers, 
fogging the insides of rainy caves 

                     while we’re absorbed and blending 
                 into larger and more eternal sexes. 
 
The body still here, at my fingers, 
at my organs, 
spread like water underground 
thru me the spirit. And the rain 
dissolves my organics thru sins 
that no one talks about anymore, 
but like months of rain 
flood our time on earth 
like stars in living vapors. 
 
[Joseph Ceravolo {1934-1988} 'Not Afraid of the Dark', from Collected Poems]

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