✨ Taxonomy of Churning

a vast moonlit loom...

Taxonomy of Churning

The ocean at night: a vast moonlit loom
weaving blue froth. The Delta Queen’s
sternwheel muscling through the Mississippi.
Butter on the prairie, Ma teaching Laura
to plunge the dash in stiffening cream.
Voices boiling over on the TV news, so many
words unleashed from what they mean.

—Erin Murphy

From Taxonomies, Word Poetry, Copyright © 2022. Used by permission of the poet. Photo by Niranjan _ Photographs, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.