A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff

Author:Robyn Schiff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-14T16:10:15+00:00

A DOE DOES NOT REPLACE IPHIGENIA ON THE SACRIFICIAL ALTAR

There was a need

to be weak and I met

it. I appeared in the confusion

between strength and

surrender, as if out of nowhere,

that’s the illusion.

I was reared

ruminating

in a thicket of

sorrow with a beautiful

string of drool

hanging out the side of my

mother like a loose

phosphorescent

tether.

How will I know

what to do, I wondered.

No one does, my mouth said.

Don’t touch me. I want to stand,

for once, on the bed

and flip the switch on the fan

that reverses the direction of

the blades myself

while the fan is moving.

It is a small switch, and I have a

small hand from which

an insignificant wind

is swinging in

the other direction now.

I feel like a beast in a clearing,

but I am a girl in heaven.

I passed out

as the wind picked up

and in the bay

as the tide

came in,

what a blow to mankind,

an automatic wind

to war, toward

war, untoward

toward war

took my breath

away with it.

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