Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood

Author:Patricia Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

See a Furious Waterfall Without Water

Never has an empty hand been made

into more of a fist, and Waterfall Without

it swings so hard it swings out

of existence. How will anyone get married

now, with no wall of water behind them?

How will Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

marry Across Niagara Falls on a Tightrope?

Over the Falls would have worn a veil,

Across the Falls would have tied a tie,

hand in hand they would have poured

down the aisle to the sound of rustling

silks. Later they would narrow

to a lovely neck, later they would make

a gentle elbow in the water, later

they would pour into a still round pool,

and dance for three minutes to what they

called music. Niagara Falls is a family

member. He is drunk for the first time

in a hundred years. “I don’t call that music

I call that noise,” would have screamed

Niagara Falls, right through his aquiline

family nose. All of Niagara’s ex-lovers

are here. The World’s Steepest Dive

stands up and says, “I’ve been diving

so long now, and when will I hit?

When will you be there for me, Niagara?”

First Woman Behind the Falls stands up

so everyone can see her, so everyone

can see what has happened to her looks.

“You took the best day of my life,

Niagara.” The World’s

Longest Breath-Hold stands up,

she loves him, she drew in her breath

the first time she saw him and never

breathed out again, not ever. The furious

waterfall without water he punches her

into tomorrow; the World’s Longest

Breath-Hold is longer now and she calls

to him from the future, “You’re here,

you’re roaring again where I am,

Tomorrow.” Finally his first love the U-

Shape stands up. Stands up and she says,

“Niagara.” The sound curves down and up

again, even the shape of her voice is a U.

“I don’t call that music I call that noise,”

says the furious waterfall without water,

trembling at the very lip, unable to contain

himself, and there he goes roaring

back into her arms.

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