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all bound

by Betania Tesch

exhale and
become
lighter than air
touch
the top of
the sky and
shatter
jagged pieces
falling and
piercing
through your skin
and fusing to your
fingertips
and we are bound
and touching
together
before shattering
and combining elements
again.

12/23/2002

Author's Note: Oh, goddess, listen to JD Vernon's We Are All Bound the hardest part of me is you...

Posted on 12/23/2002
Copyright © 2024 Betania Tesch

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Glenn Currier on 12/27/02 at 04:18 AM

I get an image of the icicles like the ones two and three feet long hanging from the front porch now. When you touch the ice, it can cling to your skin and you become one with the irregular, crystal mass of it, bound by elements of Earth and Earthlings. I liked this one, Bethany.

Posted by Ashok Sharda on 03/24/03 at 02:58 AM

'Become lighter than air and touch.' Yes, we are all bound. Were always bound before shattering. You sound so philosophic. After all SEEING is what philosophy is all about. Well, let me say that you have succeeded in SEEING as well as producing the SCENE as SEEN.

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