Poem: A Scarlet Moss. Love so slippery needs handles.

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The great news is it's about two years since I've been able to write a traditionalish love poem. Love poems work best when the poet worries her love will fall prey to the myth of death; when she acknowledges the body's short span relative to life's 16 billion years. Love itself? I am full of love. Just ask me!

I love nieces and nephews, friends, trees, parks, birds, books, the arts fine and coarse. I love our short, odd incarnation in flesh, the jackhammer and its dental-like technician. Like that.  Most of all I love this, thinking, staring, writing, being; conjecture on life and not-life. 

And the word "blubbery."  Tough word for a woman. Good word for the dental technican at the jackhammer. And our progress towards healing. Bingo. Enjoy, my Valentines.

A Scarlet Moss

It was weird. Mom disapproved
and Pop started shaking
like he'd seen a fluffy pooch.
He has his fears.
I stripped.
So what if I'm blubbery.
I want to roll on whorish moss.
I could wake up or you could
set fire to the marriage counselor.
Love so slippery needs handles.
Wedding planners are a food group.
So is roast beef.
The horseradish of a different color is pink.
Perhaps you're hip: Work sucks.
That one gets folk fired.
Her husband's mean.
I hope a scarlet moss does cover the land.
All I need is
rub its science fiction with bare feet.
The human soul has been invaded.
Rub it and heal.
_______________
Sarah Sarai, pub. in MiPoesias, 2010

***rapt attention provided by Jonathan Morse and friend

New Poem Published: at MiPOEsias

scarlet elf cup {fungi}

My poem
"A Scarlet Moss"
has just been
published in
MiPOesias
{Vol 24,
Issue 1}
a journal, under
the witchery of
artist
designer
editor
writer
publisher
Dulce
Menendez.

You have options for receipt and
enjoyment of
MiPOEsias,
explained and
expounded
upon thusly and so at
mipoesias
. {dot}
com and urls
listed below.

The issue is fully beautiful and convinces of the viability of pdfs as a delivery system for the written word. In addition to going to MiPOesias.com, various routes to this issue are along the following cyberways. I don't understand the difference between and among any but simply list them.
http://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/mipoesias24?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed


http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1q2sf/MiPOesiasJanuary2011/resources/index.htm


Print and iPAD available from: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/134923 

Also published in this issue include David Olimpio, Melissa McEwen, Ron Androla, David Krump, Fred Longworth, J.A. Tyler, Laura Sheahen, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Lara S. Williams, Laura Sheahen, Sam Rasnake, Samuel Peralta, Luc Simonic, John R. Cornwall, J. Michael Wahlgren, Sheila Murphy, J.P. Dancing Bear, Suzanna Frischkorn, Laura McCullough, Michael J. Martin, John Campbell, Jess Burnquist, Michael Milburn, Chris Pexa, Barbra Nightingale, Adam Field, Ken Taylor, Diana Adams.