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Speaking the Body
by Becky Sakellariou
The body that sings as it rises
up from the deepest sleep
is simply the body
that we, living, remember.
The other body
streams back to its stone
seed to where the earth’s
tongue has not yet tasted
water, where we haven’t yet
learned our home, where
our name still has no sound.
Where the god body
has not begun to walk
amongst us, where
our wetness
is not from rain, where we
do not know our own skin.
We are the waiting
body who leans
against itself, yearning
to hear the speaking
body tell
the only story
that will bring the earth
to trembling silence.
Copyright © 2002 by Becky Sakellariou
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the White Pelican Review in 2002
by Becky Sakellariou
The body that sings as it rises
up from the deepest sleep
is simply the body
that we, living, remember.
The other body
streams back to its stone
seed to where the earth’s
tongue has not yet tasted
water, where we haven’t yet
learned our home, where
our name still has no sound.
Where the god body
has not begun to walk
amongst us, where
our wetness
is not from rain, where we
do not know our own skin.
We are the waiting
body who leans
against itself, yearning
to hear the speaking
body tell
the only story
that will bring the earth
to trembling silence.
Copyright © 2002 by Becky Sakellariou
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the White Pelican Review in 2002
Becky Dennison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England and has lived all of her adult life in Greece. A teacher and mediator/counselor, she has recently published in Passager, Northern New England Review and Comstock Review. Nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Annual in both '02 and '04, she also won first prize in the 2005 Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest for her chapbook, The Importance of Bone, and will be having her second book, Earth Listening, published by Hobblebush Books in autumn, 2010.
