blue skies poetry

can you bear
a poem

fur it in snarls
and great rearing jaws

claw at it without
tearing asunder

its meaty parts
while blue sky

and white sun
reign warmth

on its strangled throat

~ Anne Sorbie

Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes in Calgary. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as Geist and Other Voices. Anne’s first novel, Memoir of a Good Death, is forthcoming (September 2010) with Thistledown Press.

Read more of Anne Sorbie’s poetry:
- some quaint perched aerie on the cliffs of time #2

Editor’s note: This poem is one of a series of ten “neruda spell” poems by Anne Sorbie that are being featured on blue skies poetry this week.

Filed under: Anne Sorbie by akublik Date 25 February, 2010