Monday, April 14, 2008

Peanut Butter Fetus on my Teacup

There is a 
peanut butter 
fetus

On my 
teacup

On my 
teacup  

that is in the 
sink 

On the side 
of the delicate white
Teacup

That is waiting 
to be washed 
in the sink

Her limp body 
Is blood 
speckled 
From the 
Teaspoon 
I used 
to scoop
Raspberry Jam
A mustard 
blob of still 
birth 

floating 
Fragile
On the side 
of my 
Teacup

It is 2am
And all 
is wonderfully 
still,

As i peer 
down 
into that steel 
sink
Her thumb in mouth

She is curled 
up in rest 
My  eternal 
mustard 
Dreaming 

Fetus

Hovering 
Above the 
teacup,
Eyes wincing 
At her strange 
fragile 
body

Lying 
Still on the bedspread 
of my 
Teacup

And I the nurse 
with my 
blood 
Stained 

dress

Quickly
I wash my 
Teacup

I watch as her body 
slides
Like fluid from
the porcelain 
Still

In the sink
I can hear 
the early morning 

Train

As my Peanut butter 
Fetus
She is washed
Like 
Off 
milk
Down 

the

                       Drain

1 comment:

Malloy said...

the title of this one made me actually laugh out loud... "peanut butter fetus" hahahah classic call me immature or whatever, laughing is timeless regardless.