People With No Mouths

People With No Mouths
© Surazeus
2019 03 13

In the village of people with no mouths 
they seek to express strange amorphous thoughts 
about contingency of second birth 
by exchanging seeds of flowers, herbs, and fruits. 

The little girl walking among bluebells, 
that sprout from blank eyes of their dead ancestors, 
discovers red mushroom that blooms from heart 
of her mother who sleeps from drinking rain. 

Plucking the red mushroom, soft as the moon 
glowing on clear pond among apple trees, 
the little girl consumes it with her eyes 
so the mushroom blooms from her ruby heart. 

When the girl sits in village ring of faces, 
the mushroom blooms from soft skin of her face 
and they stare astonished with blinking eyes 
when she opens red lips of her round mouth. 

The little girl opens her mouth and sings 
melody of wind rustling leaves of trees 
in harmony with water-trickling stream 
through bird words that flash visions in their eyes. 

When the little girl with red mushroom mouth 
kisses the face of each person, a mouth 
blooms from mute anguish of their aching heart, 
so they join strange song of water and wind. 

Leading the villagers, both young and old, 
in circles around landscape of their eyes, 
the little girl with red mushroom mouth signs 
each existing object with bird-tweet name. 

Holding hands in circle on round hill top, 
the villagers with red mushroom mouths sing 
with the voice of wind and sunlight on water 
as they transform into tall apple trees.