Adam Hughes’s ecstatic poem is a celebration of love and the natural world.
—
Corazon
i.
Horizoning, tonight my thoughts stretch
and reach further than these ten-mile-away
hills. To love is to lay inside
a deer carcass.
ii.
If all of our loves were embalming agents
love would be worthless. Our love
is decay and decomposition.
iii.
When smegma clogs a horse’s teets,
love is the hand to clean where they can’t reach.
iv.
Among the Assiniboin, sky buried lovers
reach out to one another
through a galaxy of dead
branches.
v.
What do prophets know of love?
Come, stand on the streetcorner and shout,
“O Great Love! Our hearts
explode with excess magma! The end is love!”
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