Deluge by Leila Chatti

Author:Leila Chatti [Chatti, Leila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619322202
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

WAKING AFTER THE SURGERY

And just like that, I was whole again,

seam like a drawing of an eyelid closed,

gauze resting atop it like a bed

of snow laid quietly in the night

while I was somewhere or something

else, not quite dead but nearly, freer,

my self unlatched for a while as if it were

a dog I had simply released from its leash

or a balloon slipped loose from my grip

in a room with a low ceiling, my life

bouncing back within reach, my life

bounding toward me when called.

POSTDILUVIAN

And it was not done at once. And ache gyred like a dove unable to land. I was adrift in pain; I floated in and out and could not see beyond it. I thought it was the new world in which I would learn to live. But in a moment of clarity, the window, its curtains parted starkly like a tempest. Outside the pane, the actual world revealed. Houses, copses, lives of strangers flotsam doused in shadow. A sanguine glow soaking back into the earth. And what was left of it drained slowly from the room.

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