by Steve Scafidi

by Steve Scafidi
     Before she is turned away
     for the last time in the moment
     before the new world begins
     harrowing her like a field
     and the sun and moon disappear
     and the stars and the houses
     suddenly become illustrations
     in a book no longer to be
     believed burning to ashes—
     before the earth beneath her
     rises up through her body
     slowly， every green cell
     yellowing in the aftermath—
     just before this begins and
     it begins constantly over
     and over in the secret nucleus
     of mothers quietly humming
     at every second continuously
     she breathes the odor of honey，
     his hair still the odor of honey.