Every Day Is a Poem by Jacqueline Suskin

Every Day Is a Poem by Jacqueline Suskin

Author:Jacqueline Suskin [Suskin, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683644859
Publisher: Sounds True
Published: 2020-07-30T00:00:00+00:00


No Siblings

It’s not that I was born

on a sinking ship.

My parents abandoned me

on deck as if I were a wolf

with an oar in her mouth.

I learned how to swim,

jumped in after them

dragging our vessel behind me.

I can’t stop hoping for a crew.

I have only this cup

with a dead spider in it

and a song about

how many times my mother

sold the family pet. Rip it all

from memory and no one

will stop me because clarity

is a pearl lost somewhere

in the silky folds

of a very deep purse.

I found the horizon, the place

where the sun hits the water.

Who will I show it to?



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