Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die by Tawanda Mulalu

Author:Tawanda Mulalu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

ELEGY

from weather. Everything this morning is white and light is low. I played adult on the playground, watched them. Now their sodden soles, melting into the classroom’s linoleum. I want to preserve their bodies in warmed amber. They will quiet then. Then I might lift them into the next springing of clouds with sky not just white, not just constant frothing of white speck and flash of white reflected, returned to this hemisphere: to when I was as small as them. To say as a bud is too much. But nearly once, when with the growing of cells into mass then weight then me, I was as a bud—budding, evinced by the hardening colors of a skid knee, the closeness of blood unto memory and how long until I forget my mother. She also breathes. I could apparate her here, silence her how I could not otherwise. Or gesture her kindly, like weather. See. She dances now for no body watching. She pirouettes inside a phone call I ignore while the denseness of the real appears through the windows. They named it snow. Simple prettiness, I call your whiteness to hold us less barren each year. Would you stop screeching your desk on the floor? My mouth to a child.

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