The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort

Author:Helen Mort [Mort, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473571969
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2022-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

III. UNDERGROUND

After the birth, my body was ferrous with so much blood.

I tasted wrought iron, remembered the railings in Eastwood Park

how a tree grew through and bent them, left them ruined,

perfect. First, I thought I was the metal, warped with life.

Then I held my child each night and I was the tree, sap-filled,

skin puckered by weather, sprouting wide leaves, letting

my roots taste silence underground. When my boy stopped feeding

and I fell, a part of me stayed bedded in the grass.

IV. I’VE HEARD THE SURGEON SITS YOU UP

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