Vagrant Womb (Billy Bob Loves A Devil Woman)

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By kmowery

What lasting art,

this pagan spell-

whose love comes

written in the wind-

whose ghost allures

the primal stain-

One young man snared,

falls prey, descends

the soundless tomb;

the same never

returns, nor leaves

the vagrant womb.


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kmowery  says:
3 years ago

This and 49 other Ken Mowery poems can be read in the book, "Reading The Waters" which is available in print or download form at http://www.lulu.com/92100.

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