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.