SELECTION OF POEMS
by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
a selection of poems from Sarah Fawn Montgomery | 2023
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Glassblower
Pull me molten make me more pleasing shapes, your vessel waiting to be filled rough edges melted down with open flame, cut to litter the floor beneath your boots like a cigarette extinguished crushed beneath your strong teeth, a glinting condom wrapper, the wilted receipt from a gas tank to somewhere better than this studio’s lonely, the furnace that never ends the deliberate way, artisan, you stretch me shapeless translucent and pliable shape me solid again from sand and the discarded shards of faulty others our abstract erased to become undone remade by your demand hand and steady breath as though you are God, placing us after in the kiln our glowing red rage left to cool otherwise how easily we would crack. |
Nyuso Za Nairobi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Landscape You mowed the asparagus again, ground the tender shoots between the blades of a machine built to limit things from growing, except weeds still claw through the foundation and vines wind the well no matter how you curse at the audacity, dedication inspiring goldenrod and asters, wild blackberry staining your fingers deep like bruise, groundhogs gorging on clover you try to choke out with too much seed, the fence threatening to topple from the morning glories. I wanted to eat the asparagus, but you will not feed on what is wild. It returns with my hunger-- a solitary shoot in our yard that grows everything but what it is you desire. |
