Oh do I relate, JD!

…ing for the segment
of joy, hung like half a worm, still reaching
for earth
still alive and eating. Ah but sorrow is
hungry too. And, besides, even
curled back in this narrow leather, non-sterilized chair — legs crossed, hip
undone — they work the tattoo needles;
determined not to erase
anything like history: preserve, preserve, preserve.
And hollow out
the rose, petals flung somewhere far
away. The books are lonely. I am not a book
but…
Surrender to the Pose: Prose Poem
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Dec 10, 2022
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Oh do I relate, JD!
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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