Heart's Hunger: Selected Poems - Paperback

by Karen Press (Author)

Trader in hungers,

she grew strong

And everything that could be eaten, was eaten

She was bricks, words, skin, bread.

She was fire, milk, the road, the shade.

Her roof stretched wide across the city.

In her doorway people embraced.

The moon grew thinner and thinner watching over the wastelands of her abundance