Kettle to Pot

By Simone White

Unable to pour boiling water

over an edge from kettle to pot

water boils from kettle to neti pot

still boils from kettle to cup running over

boil pool steam pool leak pool

little cooling pot over the boiled edge

of boil pooled salt vapors

sulfurous stank boil heal dangled over

the boiled edge of burnt earth

cooling salt pool nettle stung

black clotted blood at the bottom

of the sink

Copyright Credit: Simone White, "Kettle to Pot" from Of Being Dispersed. Copyright © 2016 by Simone White. Reprinted by permission of Futurepoem, www.futurepoem.com.

Source: Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016)