Poem 190

Perhaps less menacing than it sounds, it’s using the metaphor of sympathetic magic to talk about the power of a bad relationship to overshadow a new one unless steps are taken …

( I love the vivid last image, the rhyme on brush and us and the way it returns to the original entangling/disentangling theme … )

Voodoo

Disentangle yourself
from him
and entangle yourself in me

I am the only wave
that can wash you free
trust me
and you will come away clean

but leave anything
for him to find
something like this
your brush

and he will come back

walking up your hair
to us