more wintry poetry

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I like getting pome in my email cuz the subject is always just the title so I go in unprepared & read whatever it is without expectations & sometimes I see "Anne Carson" at the end and think oh, of course & this was one of those times.

God's List Of Liquids

It was a November night of wind.
Leaves tore past the window.
God had the book of life open at PLEASURE

and was holding the pages down with one hand
because of the wind from the door.
For I made their flesh as a sieve

wrote God at the top of the page
and then listed in order:
Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.

Anne Carson (1995)