[Poem] Her Heavy Eyelids
2008-12-29 @ 2:23 a.m.
like thick gray clouds hanging lowto 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.