Structure — Masolino's Eve — The Female Snake
: ~ a springy fire set inside pear prickles the vocative , a now bubble now that's a thing your nervous system might have been one of the paths on the Tree on earth , oddly like as night where she was musing , under sap , blazed in here , hushed in under cover of , , : ~ a springy fire sets arm in arm on the athlete sea of interpretation bushes where the moon was waxing under sap , here we make up the arbornauts travelling around the islands and the forests-of-summers amateurs we called ourselves ~ a forno with which to scratch her nickname , soften a groove into a belt trout pan , her initials into how a highway feels ; ~ : ~ taking space out hanging it up along the clotheslines in that hour of the trees : ~ the Brancacci chapel winds might have been one of the paths of the tree Blazed in here , hushed in here under cover of painting : ~ The springy fire set by one long experience on earth , , On earth , through that roar gap makes through trees ' velvet amateurs : ~ no longer ashamed to be a tree-like belly the I is laid upon , as if emblazoned in vowels it must be the poise of the Linden leaves he is swimming with : ~ it might have been a structural tense upbraiding in and out of her saying what is the plural of one that on their lapping undersides snake eggs lay their little heads ——
Credit
Copyright © 2012 by 'Annah Sobelman. Reprinted from In the Bee Latitudes with the permission of University of California.
Author
'Annah Sobelman
'Annah Sobelman is the author of In the Bee Latitudes (New California Poetry, 2012) and The Tulip Sacrament (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 1995).
Date Published: 2012-01-01
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/structure-masolinos-eve-female-snake