White Blood by Kiki Petrosino

Author:Kiki Petrosino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Louisa

In Louisa

You wake up because

you hear someone singing

little lamb, little lamb

as if the singer were calling

from across a great

distance. You know, as you’ve always

known, that you’re the little lamb

in this song, just as you know

that no matter how far

you may wander from the loop

of sand where you were born

the singer of this particular song

will always sing little lamb meaning you

quite distinctly. As you

slowly climb from the covers

you try to tell the song to stop

that noise, please but what comes out is

play it again, which you hadn’t meant

to say, at all. Soon, the song starts up

once more, spinning the long journey

of itself. It speaks of coiling into thickets

of sharp weeds, of slanting across hills.

The song even describes you

in some time before remembrance.

You wore a suit of woven water

& learned to speak in rippling syllables.

You, or someone like you.

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