Boy Saint

Boy Saint | Poem by Peter LaBerge | Film by Tom Speers from Motionpoems on Vimeo.

Boy Saint

for Eric

In the beginning, we were one blood.
Then the body, stem of thorns, grew
its disagreement from the inside
out. Like all biblical stories, it begins
with a simple thorn, a natural secret
the body kept from itself. I open
the sealed envelope: everything in the sky
folded, gathered into one body. Shoulders,
the tightness of my mouth. Wounded
bird. Lightning fluttering between two boys
who want to be in a ...