Bone Made From Animals

Bone Made From Animals features two poems assembled by Anna K. Crooks

I.

Your spring roses flowering Flowering flowering

roses flowering roses more! Fabulous red masterpiece

but borne in blooms eaten eaten A blush

eaten A blush crisp, the taste the taste mellow, sweet, delicious

delicious but no good for one old as I

Seek no further sweet Paradise

Paradise cover for snakes

pleasant days ripening raw, red fruit

mention no summer, flushing

and the tree growing behind the house

Side knee arm back foot leg and bone

bone made from animals

made of made entirely his

his designs made of only his

his most profound

II.

It was the unusually friendly air

Body of steel left breathless

left breathless easy, and - gasp!

Best left aloneleft alone remember it:

Some tree seeds must spend time

time in the thick, thick, leathery, yellow because

It is extremely difficult for the inexperienced to

Hang a dead rabbit over the centre of the pit

But you canYou can say something

Between a touch and open air

You can have a taste a taste and give me up

But then at least I can suffer

recorded/mixed by Craig Bowen at Tempo House in Baltimore

mastered by Murat Çolak at Geryon Sound in New York City