[Poem] Her Heavy Eyelids

2008-12-29 @ 2:23 a.m.

like thick gray clouds hanging low

to shield the glittering stars

from piercing the beating hearts

of innocent young men

those heavy eyelids

make green youths into bitter ancients

who crush peaches beneath the heels of their boots

and skin each of their kittens

in a new and interesting way

those heavy eyelids

fall closed so that goddesses can ignore

the squalling of red naked babes

rolled in white silk and floating in baskets

and because of those heavy eyelids

the mothers' bleeding never stops.