Notes from a Shipwreck by Jessica Mookherjee

Author:Jessica Mookherjee
Format: epub

Ten Pieces of Driftwood

Resting

If I lie here a while, just touching your outer edges, lean

upon you, if you don’t notice me touching, is that OK?

Dog-shaped

A dog carved by weather. My face

and my hand is splintered.

Distance

Can barely whisper, I wish you would lean on me

like you used to last year when you were free. I wish

I could see you better.

The woman in the window frame

The woman in the window hangs her rags

on red walls. In the house

nothing dries.

Erection

You didn’t hold me up, I was going to that dishevelled hut

in the middle of the wood

anyway.

That man who used to shout downstairs

His nurse came to see us after one bad night, do you remember?

She told us he had a disease that made tiny noises sound loud

as thunder. We got drunk and danced, do you remember?

Animals

I have this rodent living inside

my guts, gnawing sharp teeth to the sounds of the forest.

Moss

The forest crumbles into peat and I could roll

green, push away the soft and stay there, all warm.

Exposure

When there is no door anymore, just rotten

frames, anyone can get in.

Soon everything will be trees

When wildflowers take over the earth, when moss

turns golden, when maps make no more sense

than the patterns swallows make, then everything

will be trees.

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