Bone Milk

Bone milk


Write the O.

Dip skull

into bleach.

Press the letter.

Bones soften

into calcium.

Smear a zero.

Hair dissolves

into ink.

Erase paper.

Skin evaporates

into foam.

Boil subject

and verb;

condense

into liquid.

Fade from dark,

the shade of milk.
Suck out period.

Tooth heats

into fluid.

Now pour skeleton

into another skin.

Orlando White, is Diné (Navajo) from Sweetwater, Arizona. His clans are of the Zuni Water Edge People and born for the Mexican Clan. He is currently a creative writing student and holds an A. A. degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He is the co-senior editor of Bone Light, a journal of Neo-Modern Literature and a Zora Neale Hurston recipient at Naropa Institute. His poems have previously appeared in Ploughshares, 26, and are forthcoming in Ur Vox.