Archeological Love Song

By Kim Malinowski

1.

Let my hands stumble
into channers

laugh
sienna pebbles

fingers rough
scraped across mesh

history sacred on palms.

2.

Let my feet always press deep
loved soil

trowel
whispered prayer.

Sink into sediment
love,

stratigraphy tongued
blessing.

3. 

Let me calculate our radials
distance between

my shovel
your trowel

waltz fingers through channers
leave me beautifully broken

taste of grit
and bone dust

praying on tongue.

Kim Malinowski is the author of three books and has three forthcoming verse novels. She is a lover of words and has been nominated for the 2023 Pushcart Prize and the Best of Net. She was nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.