EARTHLY FORM
O body of lines and lumps — wild tributaries of light and love, run rapid down my broken frame, nourish and cut through stone same. I love you whole, your earthly form giving beautiful body getting warm — no, not giving, but getting it in return, for offering all, now offering storms. I thank you up and down, every way voluptuous with gratitude in waves across and for your deep oceans, pouring into seas, waters motion gulf streams, bays, beaches, rivers, lakes, and creeks. My appreciation is as deep as my love which you can keep buried down in soil and watered like a dream or promise offered — O earthly form, O body I love, body on fire in strutting pumps.
— Adam Powers