Whose Afterbirths Are Rainbows Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Whose Afterbirths Are Rainbows



Another anthem without the girls:
Here is the down trodden making love to the
Blistered leaves,
In a cathedral of ant lions that the sky presumes
Above,
The buses having turned around:
The butterflies, they are in Mexico, being stolen
But multiplying- the words work for and
Figure out themselves, against the suppliant
Branches:
Pull them back and find, marble arcades,
And carports where laundry spins, and toads
Sing to the clouds, with mottled throats
And spotted bellies: they sing there up to the
Curtains whose afterbirths are rainbows,
But not unicorns come to them,
And the housewives fold up the clothes for
Themselves:
Done praying, they go inside, and wait for their
Children to approach them.

Friday, July 22, 2011
Topic(s) of this poem: branches
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Robert Rorabeck

Robert Rorabeck

Berrien Springs
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