Janet Sutherland - Poem of the month

Gathering Sentences

it’s hard enough gathering stones
igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary

we’ve come to the beach again
to sit eyes closed listening to

stones to suck them dry
to stick the tongue through

the hole in the middle to
salt words that won’t come

easy anymore

copyright Janet Sutherland 2009
from Hangman's Acre (Shearsman Books, 2009)