Field Requiem by Sheri Benning

Author:Sheri Benning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

That night, her husband asleep, she steps out

onto their bungalow’s back patio. New moon,

overcast, trapped light from the city horizon,

creek-bottom orange, when from the depthless

sky, the season’s self-erasure,

the first heavy snow –

I don’t know who she is.

I don’t know who you’re looking for,

she told her sisters as she closed the door.

Please go.

BEFORE

their collagen hives dried

and her bones cracked, the richness

of her belly and thighs, grave wax.

Before bile and iron frayed

her best summer dress. Before

the cancer diagnosis, the heart attack.

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