Ovule
you rolled the egg
you cracked a world
and there among the blue
fragments of a planet’s shell
you saw a god
and you watched
as at first the form licked
the albumen off its fur
and then unfurled
ears black
tipped and long
and then with
steel-tendon legs
your god
ran
Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist and speaks & writes in various ways. He has published books & chapbooks with various poetry houses, including Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, Middle Creek, & Shearsman Books. Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester, in England. He tweets poems from @kramawoodgin.
Other Works
Ballad of the Lime Cadillac
by Allen Landver
... planets warming, ill with gravity, a // rhyme // Burned / rubber? // was it Cain’s spirit / that western summer ...
Canto Gorgo (Medusa's Psalm)
by Steve Passey
... Let people have their small gods / and small goddesses, / their fires in their vessels of bronze ...