POETRY FORUM

Milk Moments

by KJ Hannah Greenberg on April 5, 2018 :: 0 comments

Go away little growl,
Little Guy demanded nursing,
Head held back, catching my light
In your growth of lips, cheeks, tongue.

My cups wash limpid, free of darkness,
As we share the wisdom of lactation,
Chaff’s only culled as we pause for air
Or for lesser needs.

Then, during diaper changes,
Flickerings of serious poetics totter,
Coupling your vulnerable parameters,
With history more than nature.

Greater immolations,
You impecunious thief, come
When our mutual articulations
Sing home the moon.

editors note:

Babe at breast sings milk from moons. (This one comes from KJ Hannah’s recent collection, Mothers Ought to Utter Only Niceties. See how to get your copy here.) – mh clay

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A bit about KJ: KJ Hannah Greenberg snorts and snuffs in poetry and prose. Hannah was nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize as well as once for The Best of the Net. Hannah’s most recent books include: the essay collections; Tosh: Select Trash and Bosh of Creative Writing (Crooked Cat Books), her 5th vol. of short stories, Can I be Rare, Too? (Bards & Sages Publishing, 2017), the novel, My Neighbor Judy (serialized in The Tachlis Magazine 2017-2018), and the poetry collections, A Grand Sociology Lesson (Lit Fest Press, 2016) and Mothers Ought to Utter Only Niceties (Unbound CONTENT, 2017). In the next few months, look for Hannah’s next novel, Upon the Lion and the Serpent (Cactus Moon Publications), and an omnibus of, i.e. best of her short stories, Concatenation (Bards & Sages Publishing).