Delicious Meaning
I am desperate to create
beauty-full things
that curve and
swirl in my hands,
note-flinging acrobats
coaxing meaning (how
I long
for a paint-tipped
jewel-tone blue and grass green!)
but I can’t, you see,
unless you show me,
tell it to me like
a story
my eyes and heart can read
and then my mind will hear it
too and my body,
hungry and insatiable as it is,
will consume it readily
like the first meal
and I will want you
more then
in the way
you meant art
to sing.