Editor’s Note: April is National Poetry Month, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers and poets themselves all honor this time by celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. Here at the San Francisco Bay Times we are delighted to present a new work by our Poet-in-Residence, Kit Kennedy. Photographer Stacy Boorn took the beautiful accompanying images.
In addition to her position at the San Francisco Bay Times, Kit Kennedy is the Poet-in-Residence for herchurch, http://herchurch.org
To read more of Kennedy’s work, please visit http://www.poetrybites.blogspot.com
Stacy Boorn’s work is featured at AWE Gallery, http://stacy.awegallery.com/
Find out more about National Poetry Month 2016 at https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home
Nothing Consumes a Body More
than love nor pen put more words
to its prescription. Love: real, imagined
rehearsed, reheated. Warm as cat
complex as cloud, slippery as mercury,
unfathomable yet familiar as socks.
And, yes, sentimental–berries & cream.
The tilt of mirror enlivens or frightens
love. Sometimes love struts a saucy
dahlia; other times demure as heirloom
rose. And love never stops
talking, not even in the final silence.
What is a body to do?
To navigate love, it’s best to consult
earth, sea & stars. To pick a lover
simply indulge in chocolate & kissing.
– Kit Kennedy
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