Greenware

Greenware



Such wanting to be moldable –

touch these [funniness] bumps on legs, ours,
  we are
   soap-colored in fingers painting:       

   here   
                                       me   
                                                  you 
                                                                               calmate
   

We're glazing this
over music boxes anchored to the drain,
whose strident peals
mat
like vacant words.

Knowing I curdled when I
opened my pores to you, and,
swollen-gulped,
dried out   

                   [please,        admit:  I am done.


                                                           Take me from the kiln.]

















*greenware: pottery at any stage before it is fired.
*kiln:  incredibly hot oven used to harden and fuse greenware into finished pottery.