Stay Safe by Emma Hine

Author:Emma Hine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

in a layer of brain

called the dura mater.

Tough mother.

I’ve never touched the scar—

we’re too close

for this kind of intimacy—

so I don’t know

how the old theory works,

do I inherit the scar,

the tumor, the history

behind it? We’re all steeped

in the tragedies

of our parents’ generation.

Take the doctor’s hands

in JFK’s bloody hair. My mother

sometimes calls this

her claim to fame,

that her neurosurgeon used to work

in Dallas, was in Trauma

Room One that day.

I’m such a selfish little nation—

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