Freedom
In my hometown
a one-year-old calf—
white, thin, small—
like a wish whispered
from a young mouth into an adult ear—
In my hometown
a one-year-old calf—
white, thin, small—
like a wish whispered
from a young mouth into an adult ear—
Dearest, I wonder why
In English the body is both dead
and alive.
—Aria Aber
i.
My first memories of you
are memories of me
wary of picking the ashes
out from my mother’s
hair, everything alight yet
nothing glimmering, i fly
away from disaster like
The dry heat spiderwebbing fault lines onto my knees, loosening the telephone wires that shadow the sidewalk.
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