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How to Eat Your Feelings
You will know hunger the way we all know hunger, a stretching feeling, a green uneasy feeling. You will reach for what is in front of you, what is always in front of you, you will forever be reaching out—your body and mine, we are not so different; my hunger is more simple, and less about devouring.

I will grow to know your bones the way we all know bones, the angles of them. You will hold onto your ribs as if they were the sterns of ships and will sail you to your heart.

You will speak of emptiness as if you know it, as if it were inside you—as if you had been born from it, rather than it born from you. You will read me poems about men
who eat their hearts in the desert and you will smile and say, yes.

Your heart and mine— we are not so different. My hunger is more simple, and less about devouring.

How to Eat Your Feelings
You will know hunger the way
we all know hunger, a stretching feeling,
a green uneasy feeling.
You will reach for what is in front of you,
what is always in front of you, you will forever
be reaching out—
your body and mine, we are not so different;
my hunger is more simple, and less about devouring.
I will grow to know your bones
the way we all know bones, the angles of them.
You will hold onto your ribs as if
they were the sterns of ships and will sail you to your heart.
You will speak of emptiness
as if you know it, as if it were inside you—
as if you had been born from it,
rather than it born from you.
You will read me poems about men
who eat their hearts in the desert
and you will smile and say, yes.
Your heart and mine— we are not so different.
My hunger is more simple, and less about devouring.

~ by raymunbro on January 30, 2008.