Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett with Mobile Photographer, Montse Abad
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Prayer for Appetite’ by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett. She is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press, 2015). She serves as the poetry editor at Foglifter Press and lives in Oakland, California.
I have matched Montse Abad’s @mabadca image with this poem. You can view and follow her on Instagram here.
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‘Prayer for Appetite’ ©Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
What whispers suckle, tugs
spines upright, name god.
Acolytes—mice sniffing
a wet breeze, blouse milksoaked
at an infant’s cry,
universe ever expanding.
Oh cosmic through line,
teach the weaker sex your
bruising grip. May we find
statements heavy as stones
in throats, stay hands that
push away plates, backs
arched only to provoke
a conclusion. Instead, let
what’s clenched uncoil,
pulse under the tongue.
At dawn, we’ll rise to tuck
ribs into the smoker’s belly.
Copyright © 2018 Luiza Flynn-Goodlett. “Prayer for Appetite” originally appeared in Colorado Review.
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