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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