{"id":55,"date":"2021-12-14T01:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2022-05-09T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:47:44","slug":"primordial-hymn-after-pilot-verse-by-matt-w-miller-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-2\/primordial-hymn-after-pilot-verse-by-matt-w-miller-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Primordial Hymn \u2014 after \u201cPilot Verse\u201d by Matt W. Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jasmine Flowers<\/p>\n

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Now to write a book of birth,<\/p>\n

eighty pages edged with gold.<\/p>\n

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Now to crack back the ribs<\/p>\n

to peer inside fresh lungs.<\/p>\n

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Now to scrape the cavities<\/p>\n

full of meat and metal ends.<\/p>\n

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Now to spit into open hands<\/p>\n

thronging the empty flames.<\/p>\n

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Now to let loose the wails<\/p>\n

waiting deep in my throat.<\/p>\n

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Jasmine Flowers is a well-watered poet from Birmingham, AL. Her poems appear in River Mouth Review, Cypress Literary Journal, perhappened<\/em>, and more. She is currently a poetry editor for Variant Literature<\/em>. Find her at jn-flowers.com<\/a> and @jas_flow<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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