Kettle to Pot

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)