An Origin Like Water by Eavan Boland

An Origin Like Water by Eavan Boland

Author:Eavan Boland [Boland, Eavan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Poems
ISBN: 9780393285734
Google: grXdCQAAQBAJ
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1997-06-16T23:00:00+00:00


Mastectomy

My ears heard

their words.

I didn’t believe them.

No, even through my tears

they couldn’t deceive me.

Even so

I could see

through them

to the years

opening

their arteries,

fields gulching

into trenches

cuirasses stenching,

a mulch of heads

and towns

as prone

to bladed men

as women.

How well

I recognized

the specialist

freshing death

across his desk,

the surgeon,

blade-handed,

standing there

urging patience.

How well

they have succeeded!

I have stopped bleeding

I look down.

It has gone.

So they have taken off

what slaked them first,

what they have hated since:

blue-veined

white-domed

home

of wonder

and the wetness

of their dreams.

I flatten

to their looting,

to the sleight

of their plunder.

I am a brute site.

Theirs is the true booty.



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