Best Dentistry Poems

I went to see my dentist today
She works out of her house
It’s a one-chair operation
With hardwood floors
An old dog lies on a rug
Next to the chair
He’s seen it all
Root canals, molar extractions…
He seems so calm
I wonder if she ever works on his teeth
The old gummer
Sit’s...

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The dentist and Reflections 

Up there in the continuous darkness of the universe 
I saw a streak of light... a dying comets last hurrah.
Bedroom very dark couldn’t sleep too much death 
for one night. Got up and read an article that plants 
speak to each...

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My signal 
is made with my mouth
where I eat
and where I kiss.
I say yes around my lips,
biologically I may
suck in or
disembogue here.
My smile is
the main
face of my yes,
eight teeth
I keep fresh and
well shaped.
My smile is
more important than
my soul....

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Unschooled in art, uncouth, that's what 
          you'll say of me;
I've tried and tried so hard, but I 
          still have to see
da Vinci's Mona Lisa mythic,...

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I don't have an overbite or an underbite
I didn't realise that was interesting
Until in a conversation about teeth
That I didn't understand
Because it didn't apply to me
My teeth line up
I thought that was most people
However I've just spotted myself
Misaligning my jaw
Making things ache
That's probably more baffling
And...

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supine in support
buzz of fly in o’erhead light
with my mouth agape
...

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