Today's poem is by Bruce Bond
Planetarium
As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib,
their shadows darkened the yellow walls:a ripening pear. My mother frowned
tenderly like a mirror, touchedher fingers to her nipple, placing there
the word milk, then took her hand away.The syllable drifted to the floor of my body,
a shiny lure swiveling through the darkmy first imagination of need. A toy piano
played lullabies on its metal teeth.When my mother leaned down to kiss me,
she pressed her face on the pad of my silence;then she withdrew, jostling the planets.
That night my parents slept lightly. The skylay wind-stripped and polished to its tar.
When I spoke, they imagined themselvesemerging in my first words. Like children
they lit up at the names they were given.
Copyright © 2006 Bruce Bond All rights reserved
from The Anteroom of Paradise
Silverfish Review Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission
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