Lineage
as long as I
collect words
thread them up
pearls on throat’s velvet skin
style sentences
to gong beat
or strum of strings
word given, same as word kept
and peel skin from words
like bark from tree
dissect their roots
grown in loamy
or rocky history
as long as I
dig for roots
I catch glimpses of mine
exhume names of my ancestral tree.
Embrace
body
sucks in
world around
through
mouth, lungs
greets
pictures, words
eyes and ears
satiation
the world around
turns up inside
absorbed
adopted
made me
made mine
then discarded
exhaled
digested
shed
forgotten
missed
longed for
like company
open
body porous
Bionote
Marie-Andrée Auclair’s poems have found homes in many print and online publications in Canada, the USA, UK, Ireland and Australia; to name a few: Bywords (Canada); Poetry Pacific (US); The Phoenix (US); Structo (UK). She lives in Canada.
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