Sun Lover
by Mindie Kniss
by Andrea Potos
Face upturned, arms and legs
splayed out in tall grass,
I could be a plant taking light,
making it food,
warmth seeping through skin,
flesh on the verge
of some joyful, chemical
transformation.
I think of the faithful
who open their mouths for the wafer
dissolving, converting
to something like god in their bodies.
Andrea Potos lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and daughter. Her two poetry collections are Yaya’s Cloth (Iris Press) and The Perfect Day (Parallel Press). Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies, including Women’s Review of Books, Calyx Journal, Ars Medica, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Southern Poetry Review, Beloved on the Earth (Holy Cow! Press), and Claiming the Spirit Within (Beacon Press). “Sun Lover” first appeared in Loch Raven Review.
