[body farm] [soul photograph/double exposure] [late light]

 
                                              after Sally Mann

                         —silk and honey the hair is after so much rain //

but not

the skin // the skin is coral // leaf-torn

& bee-pitted //

humped up & sloping to where the neck is vapor //

—slag

bone from the whittling down of marrow // down

to where it is scarfed

in melt //

no ore // just seepage // run-off //

                                                (though the face // the face stays

waterfall // alive // like moss or fog //
in flow)

                                                (it bubbles out // this music //

pure abandon //

—a burned

mouth kissing burned earth // shape of fire just before the singing)