Bleeds Her Lover (Poetry) Michael Paul Ladanyi

~For My Wife~

she steps many times through
smoke-drunk kudzu to find her lover,
through shallow-rooted rain
and more rain and water-stone
winds and more rain---
and her lover is bleeding.

artists and dogs and she,
climb wooden green-soup fences
to speak with crows,
to hear a drumming shelter.
she hurls round, angry stones
at spider-field words---
and her lover is bleeding.

through straw-break yellow on red water-color drizzle,
her swollen rain is sleeping,
mouth painted,
as wine on tasted tongues---
while shoulder-naked kudzu bleeds her lover.

(From the first stanza, words are graciously
adopted from poet, fiction writer and author
Patricia Gomes’ poem, titled,
Rain and More Rain and Winds and More Rain.)

(Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Paul Ladanyi.)