Carbon
Elizabeth S. Gunn
and the main thing
is not to hurry
with our fistfuls of herbs
later we’ll gather
kindling
in the dark
disloyal to Laws
your wristwatch dial jump
back before bowing
onward – I trace your
spellbinding silhouette
dyed in wild orange
tines saturating
wish and skin
and I am still
of the hour of brutalist
bulbs, coming out of
anesthesia
I am not a unitary thing
across 90 billion neurons
as Language never solves
what I feel
dipping into love
dipping into you
Elizabeth S. Gunn (www.elizabethsgunn.com) serves as the Dean of the School of Arts, Sciences, and Business at Nevada State University. She writes poetry and fiction in Henderson, Nevada, where she and her wife live with their three rescue pups in the endless Mojave Desert.
