Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Beaumont
Author:Jeanne Beaumont
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
GIRL ON A SCALE
Winter drew in.
I watched food fall away
from her mouth
no, it was a dream
my daughter stood on one foot
like a seabird by my bed.
I sat up insisting
but birds eat constantly.
Outside the frost
a sapling, stalk, a reed encased.
What use, to refuse?
Not a gain again.
Ungrown so thin she slipped
between the bars
and hunkered
inside her cage.
Then the fur came upon her.
Then the one
with icicle teeth
who eavesdropped on our silence
masticating air.
I awokeâit was she in the bed,
toward her
the IV dripped dripped
like an early thaw.
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