two poems

molar

orbiting tooth
that
never left the mouth

tied to the earth
by a
string of white blood


olive and pear

olive sheds a coat of black glass
rebel child of the dark sun and sea
skin of salt pierced, that plump leather
liquid cells bursting with light
collapsing and breathing oil into the blood
rich velvet heart of meat like layered rock

pear sheds a sweet paper coat
wet with nerves of sugar
and freckled with earth and wood
tracks filled with pools of juice, crisp and soft
heavier than earth and softer than snow
a fat world perfumed by the scent of baby grass

let the weight of the great sea
roll over your tongue
and the hot blue sun
let the wind sizzle in the leaves

olive and pear, moon and earth,
bodies pulling on each other