Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts

Author:Michael Symmons Roberts [Roberts, Michael Symmons]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: British Literature, Poetry
ISBN: 9780224093590
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-04-03T23:00:00+00:00

IN CUTAWAY

Stands me, though it could be any of us,

sliced open, scalp to instep, en pointe

in formaldehyde inside a glass case

like some macabre Houdini stunt.

This may be a fin-de-siècle end-of-pier show,

a sicko’s private gallery, a future museum

of mortality – I’d be the last to know:

dutiful sentry in cross-section,

everlasting witness to the visceral

crimson swarms that make us tick,

one open wound that will not heal.

Though I’m no escapologist, there is a trick:

I’m here, yet not here, my absence

and my presence held in stasis.

Now, step up. Place a hand on the glass.

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