10 - Minute Spill (Rita Dove exercise): Blackberry

The whirring needle, from the
top of a blackberry bush
finds its way undisturbed into
the cloud of whirring dust
that my body is.

The temptation to push its
subtlety further in, stifled by
sudden – surprise.
A blackberry - juice - tinged cloud
scours on my bronze ring.

(exercise from Robin Behn's "The Practice of Poetry" Good book, you should get it.)