craig kurtz
Remembering embryo
under the skin, inside the blood.
Nourishment w/o arbitrators.
Cells have heartbeats, we will be
perspicacious bubbles soon. No
mediators, swimming w/ twin
sister, we have been conceived
terpsichorean today. Timeless
commences in the uterus where
I am writing this. I knew love
even when liquid.
Remembering embryo & my
community of tissues. Nascent
frisson, innervation courses
from prehistoric heaven within
sustaining womb. Here, fingerprints
form from arterial roots. I hear
the pulsing sunrise lasting a
lifetime. This is where
infinitesimal & illimitable
share eyes.
Craig Kurtz lives at Twin Oaks Intentional Community where he writes poetry while simultaneously handcrafting hammocks. Recent work appears in Out of Our, Randomly Accessed Poetics, Penny Ante Feud, Mad Swirl and others. His first record, The Philosophic Collage, 1981, was reissued by BDR in 2012. He has been a staff writer for Perfect Sound Forever since 2003.
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