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Matthew Brinkley

HUNDREDS #21/100: "Berryfoot"



Your porcelain feet glide

through grass still spotted

with this morning’s dew, 

bending blades and time 

and, from darkness, 

my complete, 

possessed attention, 

as onto fallen limbs you hop, 

pressing leaves, twigs, beetles,

into wooly moss, 

like engraved invitations 

left for the dryads, 

then onward, into the garden

you dance, whirling your way 

through wild strawberries, 

their juices staining, blessing, 

anointing your pale feet red 

so that later, 

as we slumber in the vines, 

you press dyed soles 

to my cracked, hollowed ribs 

as badness and sorrow, 

jagged stones rupturing flesh, 

escape from me, 

and by you I am reborn.


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