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Perfect Casting

by Kristina Woodhill

Oh, little worm
My gentle earthly friend
Soft Lumbricus terrestris
Enricher of my land
What were you thinking
As you wound
and twirled your tail into
this dried and perfect curlique
I hold now in my hand?

Did you then feel
the drip-drops, drip-drops
Sense the subtle soaking
Of your soilÂ’s safe caverns deep?
Was this perhaps a monsoon moment
Forcing up and outward motion
Finding you awash in notions
Amidst and mixing with your cast-offs
Outside your castle keep

Did this flood of realizing
Prick that point in even you
To leave behind that inner spark
That soul of soilÂ’s deep longings dark
To be more
Than what the robinÂ’s eye,
The fisherÂ’s hook,
The gardenerÂ’s till
Expect from you

And rising up
Your Cirque de la Terre
Your spinning, twisting act in air
Played on this concrete
SculptorÂ’s slab
You chose the closest stage at hand
SunÂ’s soon drying kiln
And left for me
This perfect piece of art
Of you



03/25/2006

Posted on 03/25/2006
Copyright © 2024 Kristina Woodhill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 03/26/06 at 05:15 PM

You are divine, divinely inspired and inspiring! Oh, to be a sprout, a sand, a no-see-um, an anything! —in your garden, with eyes such as yours "Cirque de la Terre"—ing upon me!

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 04/01/06 at 01:37 AM

Funtastic poem Kris...Charlie

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