Poem Beginning with a Line by My Son Junuh
Every head should have a body.
Every body
a soul the size
of a jukebox loaded
with tunes our bodies know without us.
My hips begin
to remember
the pleasure I was born to
my mouth to hum the songs I never knew
I didn’t know.
My body
moving alone among others moving
and singing until I am one with the other
bodies
my soul sings to.
Each honkytonk hymn making holy
what my head forgot to love.
Credit
From Filched (Dos Madres Press, 2017). Copyright © 2017 by James Tolan. Used with the permission of Holly Messitt.
Date Published
01/01/2017