Slow States of Collapse by Ashley-Elizabeth Best

Author:Ashley-Elizabeth Best
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

III

I can remember before: my swank, an elephantine effusion, the porous borders of my curves a widening threat. Words came out as sentences leaned the wrong way. Once I was a moon assembled in its place, beside beaded stars of absent passion. I cannot feel the old bustling vitality of yesterday. I sense wrong, taste with my lungs, tongue slides it on. Late November: I took on a shed of trees with my car, inflicted metal on wood. I hoped to be a dead deer split uneven, stomach fanned open, thrown, moored from the wreckage, my body struggling to understand, a ballerina killdeer. Someone screams, the witnesses’ rigmarole antics ensue. The death choice came easy, and in that in-between shadow crossing, nerves grip each cell, a shifting landscape of pain. Hurried birds trouble the calm, I gasp, fountaining blood, the purgatory of air.

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