Long (dragon)
Once skin teaches you body’s not to feel
with it grows to solve other problems fires
get tired of burning every bed
they’ve been in down ashes look so soft
but you would never spend the night anyhow
oh she wanted you to opening her
mouth to your leavings’ straight back girlskin
you drummed hilt tang and sheath blades would kill them
what hard enough to grind against a dream
of whetstone skin draws your eyes boy floating
molten seethe yes bag of knives pain edge hard
are grieves of manhood of cooling body’s
solution ground stays knife in whet to hold
double fire breathe liquefy him aspire
five stages of femaleness:
At 10, a girl; at 20, a woman; at 30, a wolf; at 40, a tiger; 50 and beyond, a dragon
In Chinese mythology dragons are most usually female and deaf
Peggy Hamilton, a native Miamian, received her BA in English from Barry University, and her MFA in Poetry from FAU in 2007. Her first book of poems, Forbidden City, was published by Ahsahta Press of Boise State University in 2003 as part of its New Series. Her second book of poems, Questions for Animals, will be published by Ahsahta in 2013.
