#todayspoem
Marble
by Maggie Graber
Love, show me your teeth.
Show me the night settling
like a black pond, moon
a glint in a wolf’s eye. Show me
your eyes of bone-white
and shadow, the bonfires
that stripped off our bark
and your throat full of bees.
Look. The river changes tenses
and I can’t get enough of this
light, the needlework of stars
and the dozen broken hearts
it took to get to this one—
a marble peering through ashes
like moonlight in mist.