Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Doshi

Author:Tishani Doshi [Doshi, Tishani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, General
ISBN: 9789352772759
Google: EsUzDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1556595506
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Saturday on the Scores

You begin alone, soft-footed.

Hair, an unruly halo of hedgerows.

The wind stings your chest,

unleashes a street of neat,

gleaming houses. In the distance,

an ice cream stand, and the sea –

a beleaguered scrim of blue.

The body is just a cage,

but open one door, and the city

will offer her bones, shed colour.

Pull up the collar of your coat.

Tighten your belt. Know,

if you wanted, you could seduce

a stranger. Perhaps you have

already. He is walking beside you,

cigarette in hand, listening

to you talk of the tenderness

you feel towards the human ear;

how difficult it was, therefore,

for you to witness your mother’s

ears growing – not monstrously,

but enough to mar her indivisible

beauty. He admits to loving

his father more, to wanting children,

not necessarily with his wife.

You agree on nothing except

to walk till you have collected

enough lost objects to fill

the minutes of Mozart’s Requiem.

In the graveyard, one of you talks

of fire, how the soul must be endless.

The other wants a needle to thread roots

through the ligaments of the earth.

Each is an aberration. Must it rain?

Yes! Now, as the sky slips off

the girders, revealing a secret garden.

Light the rain falls. Light the dead.

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