The Yam Peel’s Reinvention Has Nothing on Mine

From Scratch

As a result of I've seen a yam peel
turn into flour, I refuse to confess
to my uselessness. My grandma stated
if we're not from beginning a completed gentle,
we may be one made out of scratch.
I like this sort of (re)making:
meals waste unfold outdoors on a mat
enduring the bites of the solar, the
tapering tip of chickens’ beaks,
then all the trend from a mixing blade,
simply to point out the universe it's able to
thriving. Right here, the issues we have fun essentially the most
come to us as a shock. Like yam flour.
Just like the luminary my burnt-out physique would emerge.

September, or Self-portrait with Hemophilia

for Q.

We're nonetheless the nation’s 
solely butterfly and meadow. 
I'm lovely as a result of 
you say so. I'm so near
believing in my magnificence. 
All the ladies I meet depart 
when my knee blows itself 
large like a balloon. I, 
extended bleeding. I spent years 
mistaking the hospital for dwelling. 
I do not perceive, at any time when 
you name my physique an eclipse. 
You say gentle will not be gentle if 
it isn't preluded by darkness. 
That's what makes it elegant. 
That's the reason I feel God is 
not a void. In a current poem, sapphires 
can be discovered across the glasses 
a girl places on. You checked out me 
in a time of harvest and questioned why 
I used to be not a blooming orchard. 
I've turn into one ever since.