Prick of the Spindle: Poetry: Lauer: Body

Evelyn Lauer is an MFA student at Texas State University, where she is managing editor of Front Porch. Her poems have recently appeared in 42opus, Blood Orange Review, Denver Syntax, and are forthcoming in Sentence. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and English springer spaniel, Belle.

Body
By Evelyn Lauer

the body is our tomb

--Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias

Stone, no less than:

this house, gutted

ravaged, scorned—

we are dust

undusted,

half of something

else, ribs

eyes, hands, blood—

human: want:

testimony of Heart.