a bullet-stream / of oyster shells
Part of a Dana Levin’s ‘The Living Teaching’:
So all hail to me―
Os Gurges, Vortex Mouth, I gap my craw
and the bakeries of the cities fall, Istomp the docks―spew out a bullet-stream
of oyster shells, I’lldrain the seas―the silos
on every farm, the ricefrom the paddy fields, the fruit
from all the orchard trees, and then I’lleat the trees―
I’ll eat with money and I’ll eat
with my teeth until the rocksand the mountains curl
and my blood sings―I’m such a good girl
to eat the world.
It’s all amazing, ‘a bullet-stream / of oyster shells’ in particular.
I need to read more Dana Levin.