Bring Down the Chandeliers by Tara Hardy

Author:Tara Hardy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry / American / General
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

Too Early

The ones who’ve been fucked too early

are beautiful. The way their hinges hang

from their hips, frames without doors. Doors

lost long ago, knobs and all. Breezes

breathe through them in places that whistle

conversely, tissue twisted so tightly

ribbons of scars trail behind. The way we lean

like we’re gonna fall

over, but don’t. The way our love

is like an earthquake—

nothing that lives beyond

is ever the same. I love that we’re open-

eyed, not afraid of anything because we’ve already

been sucked up by the storm and spit

out. To live beyond being beached

by a tornado is bound to produce a freak

child with too much light

in her eyes, not enough cotton in her

ears. We hear everything. Can accommodate

all of you, but only if we want to. There’s not another

like the one who’s been done too early. Not another

YES as open as the heartland sky, or a mouth mid-

scream. Our hearts are mouths mid-scream, swim

inside our ribs at your own, and only, risk.

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