Courage by Karen Finneyfrock

Author:Karen Finneyfrock
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938912214
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

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AUBADE WITH A BROKEN NECK

By Traci Brimhall

The first night you don’t come home

summer rains shake the clematis.

I bury the dead moth I found in our bed,

scratch up a rutabaga and eat it rough

with dirt. The dog finds me and presents

between his gentle teeth a twitching

nightjar. In her panic, she sings

in his mouth. He gives me her pain

like a gift, and I take it. I hear

the cries of her young, greedy with need,

expecting her return, but I don’t let her go

until I get into the house. I read

the auspices—the way she flutters against

the wallpaper’s moldy roses means

all can be lost. How she skims the ceiling

means a storm approaches. You should see

her in the beginnings of her fear, rushing

at the starless window, her body a dart,

her body the arrow of longing, aimed,

as all desperate things are, to crash

not into the object of desire,

but into the darkness behind it.

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