Beauty Feast
The love
the only kissing union
that helps union become
nothing
freedom just becoming
greeting needing nothing
heaving heaving reality
helping reality become
beauty kissing tree
becoming becoming
just becoming free yes yes yes
Love just help greeting
need mother universe
need food
making greeting reality
become nothing
freedom help us
become helpful dreamer
that is making union
become nothing bounty
beam nothing yes yes yes
Look
nothing becomes the
food that reality needs to
come
ingest becoming
becoming reality meal
reality freedom union
need reality to become
become helpful freedom
reality greeting union
sun yes yes yes
Copyright © 2024 by Hannah Emerson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 20, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.
“Look: mother becomes kissing becoming helpful yearning universe kissing beauty yearning pleasing union; freeing treeing, greeting treeing, needing union tree; pleasing reality, pleasing beauty, only you yearned union; reality looks, pleases you (you) you yearn, pleasing you, becoming reality freedom yes yes. Kissing becomes very very very vehicle reeling beauty becoming reality helping you breathe yes. I become become become beauty beacon, treeing just becoming becoming becoming beauty, becoming greeting becoming nothing yes yes. I I I need looking glass to beam reality, reality becoming becoming, reality becoming helpful treeing becoming nothing, helping beauty become kissing greeting great mother yes yes.”
—Hannah Emerson