Jan Wiezorek writes and paints in southwestern Michigan. The London Magazine, Broad River Review, Minetta Review, and The Orchards Poetry Journal, among others, have published his poems. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and wrote the ebook Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (Scholastic, 2011). Jan posts at janwiezorek.substack.com. 

Organic Affirmations

Your rough focus
is the fungi of my spine.

When you burst out,
my soles suck inward as trumpets.

Leaves melt, but our warmth
splits into bouquet.

Your metaphors recur
like a labyrinth dahlia.

We will heal-all
in formal questions.

What can be known
hides in your burrs,

the browns, oranges,
& herb-of-grace.

Primal Speech

Brown turns
gold, folds pink,
froths white,
bends blue,
grasps green:
primal speech
in the marsh.
It’s hard to know
our place here,
but all the marsh
knows our shape,
color, & sound.
We lounge w/ reeds
like a shock of skin.