Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride by Sy Hoahwah

Author:Sy Hoahwah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

I become the patron saint of empty tables.

After the funeral

everything is dozing, abandoned.

The only sound, the younger sister

walking off to drink with a stranger

where snakes and honeysuckle intertwine.

NATIVE CHILD STAR

In that movie about the plains,

I was an extra.

That’s me there, I told the grandkids,

in a scene of tall grass

squeezed between sunlight and blood.

Hours upon hours in this historical makeup.

Actors on their war ponies tripping over fish line.

Special lighting made actresses appear inside out.

Womanhood spread out like a battlefield map.

Shocked, I couldn’t tell the difference

between prop babies and cannonballs.

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