Resilience by Jessie Close

Author:Jessie Close
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Psychology / Mental Health, Psychology / Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder, Medical / Mental Health, Family & Relationships / Dysfunctional Families, Family & Relationships / Siblings, Biography & Autobiography / Women
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

MONTANA APRIL, A FETAL-POSITION MONTH

MYSELF

You were holding something of mine,

Something in a closed, grey box,

And I couldn’t see what was inside until

I took it from you and

Laid it on the table.

The light from the window

Illuminated the box on the

Dark wood table—

I opened the lid.

I saw the child.

Burned.

A baby, as long as the inside of the box—

Crisp, dead, like petrified wood.

I didn’t want to believe.

I didn’t want to take the lid all the way off

And I didn’t want to touch the baby

And I didn’t know how to look at her.

But I didn’t want to give her away.

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