Eating the Underworld by Doris Brett

Author:Doris Brett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2001-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Inside a Tree

(The chemotherapy agent Taxol is derived from the Pacific yew tree.)

I imagine pulling a tree over my head,

slipping into it,

over shoulders, elbows, knees,

the breathing floor.

Inside the tree, it will be dark, sap-sweet.

Daylight never enters here.

Instead there are the chemicals of light,

from those distant messengers, the leaves,

pricking into me,

the blind, delicate fingers

talking to blood

in tongues, in words

dug up from soil at the edge of the Pacific

that speak to me, beg me to listen

to what cannot be heard,

see when light is another language.

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