artwork: ralph murre
Sjögren’s
Syndrome
by
Marc J. Frazier
Anything
begins
with water:
the
mouth of the Euphrates ,
villages,
city-states, empires,
all
our ideas
gathered,
passed
down,
one place,
another,
now
and
later.
And
stays alive
as
well: cell,
tributary,
heart.
The
body
a
creek bed thirsty
for
a few drops
to
roll eyeballs around in,
to
swallow so naturally
air
is gourmet.
Surface
leaves, twigs,
plants
dried up like the privates,
their
ache for this element.
The
need not to always reach
deeper.
~
first appeared in The Spoon River Poetry
Review
