POETRY
“Love Desires a Knee, an Elbow,” read by Jeff Burt.
Love Desires a Knee, an Elbow
Why does the hard world writhe
unable to twist its torso
rigid in anger and hostility?
Why must greed become a rod
slipped near the spine
to prevent bending, suppleness?
Love desires a knee, an elbow,
a shoulder doing its rotation
wrapped around another’s slumped
in depression, grief,
back arced to dress another’s feet.
Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz Country, California. He has a digital chapbook available, Little Popple River, from Red Wolf Editions, and print chapbook A Filament Drawn so Thin, from Red Bird Chapbooks.
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Image: Christ kneeling and washing St Peter’s feet, after Dürer, print, by Marcantonio Raimondi. Public domain.
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