The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché

Author:Carolyn Forché [Carolyn Forché]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780373751
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Wrapped in a tissue you will find

a bullet, as if from the rifle

on the wall, spooned from the flesh

of a friend who must have thought

it was worth something.

Latched to its shell, a lattice

of muscle. One regime

is like another said the face

of a doctor who slid

the bullet from the flat

of his blade to my hands saying

this one won’t live to the morning.

In the black cheese crock

are the ashes, flecked

with white slivers of bone,

that should have been scattered

years ago, but the thing

did not seem possible.

The rest of the room remains

a mystery, as it was

in the shutter of memory

that was 1936, when it belonged

to someone already dead, someone

who has no belongings.

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