Verse Attachments

want to give me up completely

don’t want to keep me
on a slim rope, on a string
on a thread

on a strand of web
what a spider hangs from

don’t want to moor
yourself to me
like a ship to a dock
with ropes the size
of your arms
of your thighs


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
1:46 p.m. 09.01.08
Tia poem # 65