Gregory Orr

Self-Portrait at Twenty

I stood inside myself
like a dead tree or a tower.
I pulled the rope
of braided hair
and high above me
a bell of leaves tolled.
 
Because my hand
stabbed its brother,
I said: Make it stone.
 
Because my tongue
spoke harshly, I said:
Make it dust.
                  And yet
it was not death, but
her body in its green dress
I longed for. That’s why
I stood for days in the field
until the grass turned black
and the rain came.
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