How I Learned Not To Speak
They were a hard and practical people,
and when they said
they were willing to serve me,
I took what they had to give:
bowls of rain,
prayer-husks filled with meat.
(Their firstborn, I.)
They cut my foreskin
when heat was a prisoner in the ground.
The trees stood naked
though the sun in Taurus rose.
When I ch |