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Beginning in Valdivia
©Elisa Salasin, 2008
Dashed against a stone
my body is easily broken.
Muscle of fired clay
it embraces sustenance--
oranges, onions, miso soup.
At times set inside
another, at times another
inside me. Coupled. Full.
Full enough of promise
to pour out my heart
of easy quaff and conformity.
Even empty, I suggest
function: a moat for roses,
a small pit for thick
ooze, a still life
with blue cloth and egg.
Something transient and always
used. Like the seasons.
God’s thumbprint in mud.
Ildefonso black on black,
or with Granada’s cobalt rimmed.
From Valdivia to museums,
defining an inscrutable past,
sometimes naming an art,
sometimes accessible
and unornate as a chamber pot,
my body crosses cultures.
Silent, I’m a mouth that speaks
for us all, a drum, the dome
of the sky, a gouged globe,
a flow, a warning, a shard.
©Darrell g.h. Schramm, 2008
Darrell g.h. Schramm became a BAWP in 1992, returning again four years later. He teaches rhetoric/composition and poetry at USF and has been published in more than 100 journals and magazines. He likes to play in the garden, to dance, to read poetry in translation, and to wear out his
lover. schrammd@usfca.edu
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