In Unison

by Susan Tepper

Scatter your ash over my tomato plant

Drip your blood into my milk pitcher

Stir your tears around in my sugar bowl

Drop an organ, plump and steaming

Into the saddle of my spirit:

Rejoice!  Rejoice!

Come ride with me while the moon

Is at once in all its four phases

And we two ghosts

Will trample foreign ground

See birds with backward heads

Flowers forced root-first up

Cats suckling litters of soft gray mice

Miracles! shouts the modern world

Blindfolded—

For a period of seconds sweetly in unison

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"In Unison" was first published in London Poetry Pearl anthology from London Poetry Festival, 2009.

More about Susan Tepper and her widely published work can be found at www.susantepper.com.