Foxglove
Jan Wiezorek
The diagonal
you touch is a holy
spirit circle, a
throat spotted
for bees. Free of him,
the sound you hear
makes sense for a toad
of an idea the sits
like a piece of wood
sitting on wood,
content to be the thought
of a creator. It won’t rest
there for optics, or it will.
We tell ourselves not
to occupy this body
as a resting place. We
pull out the roots of things
as virulent as a mosquito bite.
Even the bleeding
has stopped blooming.
And we charm every type
of green, rending spokes
and sticky tongues
that, free of him,
still spit our hearts out.
Jan Wiezorek writes from Barron Lake in Michigan. He has taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and writes for The Paper in Buchanan, Michigan. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The London Magazine, Cabildo Quarterly, Yes Poetry, L’Ephemere Review, Leaping Clear, and THAT Literary Review, among other print and online journals. Jan is author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (Scholastic, 2011) and holds a master’s degree in English Composition/Writing from Northeastern Illinois University.