Juiced

None of us would be here without eros

I am broken open like the pomegranate

bleeding red pearls between your fingers

as you feed me blind folded in bed

Zing of sour,

hush of sweet,

the seed that wakes my insides,

a perfect pearl of a pill

to break open the heart

Deep red dots make my mouth salivate

The flowers growing from the rind sprout ovaries

This is life

The hearth where it all began

Where you and I and everyone we know were conceived

Where the magic swimmer made it

past the treacherous gate of cervical fertility inspectors

to meet the seed that became your skeleton

None of us would be here without eros

You wouldn’t be here breathing and laughing and

gazing at the hawk circling the blindingly blue sky

if it weren’t for the sensual body

Did you know that when a sperm meets an egg

there is a burst of light as bright as the sun?

So luminous it could blind any naked eye?

This is how your life began

Tell me that’s not a miracle,

holy flash,

meant to be.

You belong here

and how do any of us ever doubt it?

But, we will all be broken open by this life

Its how it was designed

We don’t make it out unbruised

The pomegranate of our human time was meant to be juiced and

We can only taste the nectar when we tear the skin apart

Dripping grapefruit half moons deliver the elixir

only when peeled

Piece by piece

Fiber by fiber

releasing the little burst of citrus in the air

when the nail breaks through the queens-bread

We are as alive as those juicy fruits

longing to be broken open



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Thank you to my beloved Manny Fassihi for the photos!!!

*Note: Fact check: If you are wondering, there are photos capturing the burst of light when a sperm meets an egg, but I don’t know how bright it actually is! :)

This piece emerged from our most recent Wild Heart retreat with a prompt by the wonderful Mirabai Starr.

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