Two Poems
Lind Grant-Oyeye
Constitution
I
Constitution:
Lives on paper
Spiral
pulped. One sleeve over the other,
the way we are.
II
Constitution:
What one is made of:
Water
Blood
Salt
Tears and tearing
III
Constitution:
How chemicals mix in tubes:
Brain cells to serotonin
Brain serotonin to Zoloft
Zoloft for brain pain.
IV
Constitution:
How we want to be,
just by being:
on paper
Inside water
Inside thoughts
and form.
V
Constitution:
What makes up air:
Oxygen
Water
Nitrogen
Pesticide
Pests
pestilence
Clothesline
A peg with no past
It fits nowhere else
but holds
big shirts with stories
of laundry once dirty
hanging in public
for all to see.
Small peg hands teaching
fibers to remain still
the way bored girlfriends are
and they find purpose
one peg at a time.
Lind Grant-Oyeye is an award winning writer of African descent. She has work published in various literary magazines, anthologies and curated poetry projects.
