Skylight

Your face has moon in its glow,
and I know you are dreaming
by the way your eyes are wide
and focused on some unseen star.

Your breath is like disaster,
but your lips tell me to stay.
I taste shooting stars in them,
and with the way you keep
them under your teeth,
I know you like the taste too.

You are Father Night sky
and your untold daydream thoughts
are the answers we were looking for.
When people ask what life means,
I tell them to look for the moon.


©Jordyn Rhorer 2009

Dive

I want to dive deep into the voice of poem,
into the black and thick water like molasses,
like blood in the moonlight. I want to sink

below the surface and suck in thick,
metaphor sky, fill my lungs and drown
in starlight liquor.

I want to breathe poem-air and taste
the raspberry center of the 80% cacao.
I want to run into the brick wall of stanza,

swallow my teeth and be flattened,
like graffiti on its surface.


©Jordyn Rhorer 2009