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Oak, Broom, Meadowsweet

Rosalind Casey

(A Student Contributor)

Poetry
Fantasy

Hearts shaped, hands shaped
Faces shaped from flowers
Fingertips from twigs
Stones bloom, bones bloom
Eve from Adam’s rib born
From his tendons torn
Clay-made, corn-made
Daughters of the harvest
Silk and husks for hair
Sketched out, sculpted
Milk skin out of ivory
Lusted into life
Shaped you, made you
Flower-faced and fairest
Something they forgot
Bloodless, loveless
Body formed from oak bark
Meadowsweet and broom.

                                      


 

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Copyright 2010, Rosalind Casey. All rights reserved.

Rosalind Casey hails from Texas but attends school in the Freezing North. Her work has appeared in print in The San Antonio Express-News and The Houston Chronicle, and online in the poetry webzine Goblin Fruit and previously in MindFlights.

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