For My Younger Sister
Nine pounds of you burst to us
Like hot cherries. Screeching
Eagles and cat fight fragments
Leap and fleck with you, not like
Mist but less and more there.
Bedouins in a rain of mercury
Know this pelt that mantis
Prayers can't quiet. We submit
And tread through your snapdragons; I trip,
And you're flowing like a second hand
To glide over every moment, or
With palm upwards, to rub the
Soft underbelly of our every day.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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