Sculpture:
step one
To set you down in stone
only I need to touch you first to
run my palms fingers entire
hands over through (if
muscle can be got
through, substituted only
and temporary as clay
as shape--tell me
you know like I know
touch is our last silence
our last sense to go; we could
be thoroughly without eyes
without mouth we could
be scentless and above
ourselves the way we are
when we dream and receive
the palm of husbandry
over and over our tense flesh
yes to set you down touch maybe
lately with tongue and lips
to lift the dust to whet it
against the stone and set
a fire to it. I get it don’t you
that touching you is the only
way to get through. I get it
don’t you? That touching
you is the only possible
way of getting through.
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