The Zoo at Night by Susan Gubernat

Author:Susan Gubernat [Gubernat, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE005010 Poetry / American / General
ISBN: 978-1-4962-0275-8
Publisher: Nebraska
Published: 2017-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

La Sebastiana

On her cheek a tiny silver bead, a cake decoration—

but how can metal be so oddly sweet? She sighs

and sucks it, hard, into another layer of skin,

her linen face mottled. And the eyes—the eyes

repeat, “Please help me” but look elsewhere,

anything to distract them: glint of the tin

foil of gum wrapper ground into the floor,

tree shadow on window shade this late afternoon.

She’s confessing to me about her father.

Who knew the world was so full of them,

easing open the doors of daughters’ rooms?

So many girls keeping the secret, who scar

their arms and thighs, pierce the most tender skin,

these tribal marks on ears, nose, lips, tongue saying,

I own my own body, see, I mark it again and again.

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