Aural History
By Jim Cory
Their appeal all
feeling what the mouth
alone manages among
tongue teeth & lung
Breath moist & slow
measured, so as
to soften what the world
makes metal
If you must speak
use only the voice that was
there before
words
A flick here a nip there
will do for endearment what
a year of blow jobs must
fail to accomplish
For best effect insert a day's worth
of chin whiskers en pointe
& imagine Cezanne
completing perspective details
Intimate weather or
ifice to orifice while
hands stray
into playground zones
Copyright Credit: Jim Cory, "Aural History" from Birds & Building. Copyright © 2019 by Jim Cory. Reprinted by permission of Literary Estate of Jim Cory.
Source: Birds & Buildings (Moonstone Press, 2019)