Silkweed, by Olena Kalytiak Davis

the bride in a pale peach cocoon

spun by the tender mouth

of an insect

the young broom, a tufted ear of corn,

thinking of mouths emptying

so he can enter

From “And Her Soul Out Of Nothing” by Olena Kalytiak Davis (The University of Wisconsin Press: 94 pp., $10.95) . Copyright 1997 Reprinted by permission.