Hi everyone, these poems formed the basis of my novel (to be released by Satalyte Publishing) Gepetto's Son. I will post them 1 at a time over the next weeks.
Hope you enjoy
Danny
first poem:
Pinocchio’s evolution:
It
started with the aglet of the lace
painted
upon the left black shoe
on
the foot of his carved leg.
After
an unknown interval
an
entire shoelace turned real,
moved to an intrusive breeze.
The
strings were still there
when
behind a knot of wood
his
heart began to beat.
The
right eye moistened first,
saw
the crease of flesh
and a
single blue vein underneath.
One
day the finger nail
of
his right thumb
started
to grow and curl.
A
strand of blue-black hair
at
the back of his head stirred;
a
lash of his eye fell free, fluttered,
landed
upon his wooden cheek.
The
right foot bent, returned.
His
left hand made its first fist.
His
ears filled with wax
weeks
before his bottom and top lips
cracked
and split
and a
full year, at least,
before
the tongue, like a debutant,
shyly
poked between.
It
was a sunny day
when
he first began to think;
rained
heavily the afternoon
all
his wood was finally skin,
yet
the tale is easier told when,
with
the wave of a wand,
and a
hoarse whisper of a spell,
the
puppet can speak.
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