for Michelle Renee
So this is what it looks like when a heart
explodes. Organs and exterior flesh
even in chaos reveal body parts
of her varied selves, her image still fresh
through surreal memory though it changes
your shaken sight, taut female form turning
to swirling lava and back again. Strange
how eyes influence mind: Endless yearning.
So this is how Gaea first appears years
before soothing under Uranus’ cloak,
brands her own body with prophecy’s tears,
introduces all to shadow and smoke,
tortured throughout her fiery, flexing frame,
yet somehow sensing hope within the flame.
Roger Armbrust
June 17, 2010
