Q & A by Adrienne Gruber

Author:Adrienne Gruber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Thug
Published: 2019-04-26T00:22:14+00:00

I’ve Made a Terrible Mistake

I’m not like all those

other women. I will not

rise above myself.

Time Is Still (Linear)

My bowel—Iron

Maiden, tailbone swinging

on its hinges. Stuck in

this swamp, I bathe in

my juices. Water tepid

as stale coffee. The hardwood

floor is a sundial. Is it really

midafternoon? I have douched

enough, fermented

in amniotic piss. Fevered

flesh abrades air, the drug

of heat worn.

I am combustible.

Each breath

a limb shackled.

I should have passed

this cocoon hours ago.

Instead the baby

calcifies,

travels blind.

Lithos sarcophagus.

There should be an urge

to push. I feel nothing

but the shatter of bone,

the pectin pulp of belly.

A shudder along the abdominal

fault. Aftershock.

My thighs sputter.

I want my sister. Where

is my sister?

Her slumped shadow

in another prison

4,000 kilometres

south and three years

past. I teetered on

the rocking chair

in the next room,

watched edges of the sky

pink. There was nothing

I could do for her.

She was alone in her trough

as I am now.

Booze of light moves

through the shades. Time is still

linear. Fuck.

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