The Good Earth, or Hunger
By Elizabeth Argall
Biography
I’d like to eat you earth
so warm
so lush
so deep
I’d like to feel full
Press you against my throat
Hold you against my heart
and absorb your goodness
warm, lush, deep.
Created in an age before time
Softened by the crying of the rain
Beaten by the wailing of the storm
Rich from the fire of your birth
You came to me a millennia later
Full of life despite your long travels
You came to me
and I to you.
This was the first poem I wrote when I rediscovered my love and capacity to write poetry at age seventeen.