Kelley Jean White- Three Poems

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White Mountain Boogie & Blues

 

--Fetal horses

  May gallop

  In the womb

                                               

Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia

 

 

I might call you Sunday morning

Catch you in someone else’s bed

If I call you Sunday morning

She’ll be wishing she was dead

And it won’t be cause I’m calling

No baby, you’ll be the aching

            In her head

 

I used to be so pretty

Bees would buzz around my head

Seventeen, and I was pretty

Bees buzzing round my head

Now I dance with fleas and spiders

Black flies and mosquitoes instead

 

You bought me a fistful of thorns

It was your own palms that bled

I wanted to kiss the torn up places

You didn’t want me to kiss your blood

You claimed your name meant healing

But it really meant causing pain

If there is a balm in Gilead

It definitely doesn’t know your name

 

You sat in the best parlor chair

The one with carvings on the arms

I wanted to sit on your lap

Knock us down to the floor

Honey, if you want to be my lobster

Then you better not eat my tail

 

When I said I was your baby

They named me Cora Lee

My mother went to prison

My father crossed the sea

Left my maiden aunt to raise me

Left my maiden self to flee

 

You signed your letters Respectfully

Never used Love or Dear or True

You signed your words Sincerely but

There wasn’t anything I knew

Just a lot of careful writing

There wasn’t anything that was you

 

I told my daughter not to marry

Said kiss the boy and run

Or watch out what you’ll carry

When he’s having all that fun

And the next day he’ll be talking

With his nasty little tongue

 

My daddy took me fishing

Caught a little rainbow trout

Threw it right back in the river

Said he wanted something else

Then he took out a nightcrawler

That was the only thing he hooked

 

My mother used to tell me

You can’t put a tomcat on a leash

She used to tell me

He’ll just keep running past your reach

But I bought you a little collar

With dog tags and a bell

So the birds would hear you coming

And tell you to go right down to hell

 

 

 

 

Why I Won’t Marry You

 

I want to be a lioness but

I don’t want to eat your meat

I might tear things from a bone or two

But my teeth feel kinda weak

 

And when you were a lion

I forgot to hear your roar

I could never share your pride

Don’t want to be just one more

 

I used to a be spider but

My web kept blowing away

I didn’t choose my twigs too well

They were stuck in the breeze-way

 

And a spider eats her husband

I better take care of these teeth

Make some silken strands to bind you

Honey, only one of us can eat