teeth
(we know) this world has teeth
teeth that bite teeth
of grief and death
to keep you honest this
world has teeth saw
blade teeth twin blade
timber slicing teeth teeth
to sunder youth from age
clean down the middle
into a stack of four
by two teeth so bright
they make eyes blink
and in one second saw
the world you knew just for
you this world has teeth
such teeth such teeth as
love must meet meet the world
meet its breath when death
love meets
I relate to this as it reminds me of where and when I had this and that indelible ‘bite mark’, so to speak.
“to keep you honest this / world has teeth” — Check.
“in one second saw / the world you knew” — That, too. Check. (I’m liking the use of the verb ‘saw’ here, a lot, by the way, which I take to refer to the act of cutting in half.)
I also like the circularity in the ending. Whichever one turns, one gets a ‘bite mark.’ But a mark is a mark, and what doesn’t kill you…
Thank you
I love this: teeth
to sunder youth from age
clean down the middle
into a stack of four
by two
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