Father Dirt by Mihaela Moscaliuc

Author:Mihaela Moscaliuc
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

TRAFFIC

She could have stayed at the Humana Home

for she’s clean and knows how to guard her mouth

but for the Miss nagging her all day:

“Learn to love yourself, Ana,

so you can be worthy of Christ’s love”

—as if she didn’t know love strips you bare,

keeps you wanting, and didn’t Christ forget

to love Himself, didn’t He give Himself away

as she has. Her son too, away, before she could love him.

Could have married a half-wit, like Lucia, to qualify for a state apartment,

but she has no heart to spare, no memory to house it, no need

for caresses—not these motherfuckers’, not these sweet-talkers’.

No need to souvenir her life, no need for translation

into the jargon of lilies and loss…

What she needs is to raise her rates.

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