Safe Houses I Have Known by Steve Healey

Author:Steve Healey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Villanelle on Blood

I cut myself to see what’s inside my body.

I hid the razor blade under a rock outside.

It was an accident, I told the people who love me.

I saw my blood drip on the red bedsheets

like an animal who uses camouflage to lie.

I cut myself to remove the dirty part of my body,

but I was surprised by how much I could bleed.

My wound gushed a dark night of starlight.

It was an accident, agreed the people who love me,

but in their eyes I saw they didn’t believe.

A moth appears to be the rock on which it alights.

I cut myself to forget the shape of my body

and remember how ketchup looked so tidy

when I spread it on a hamburger with a knife.

If there were an accident, how scary to see me

with blade in my flesh, red pouring on the meat,

my parents coming to save me before I die.

I cut myself to open a mouth on my body.

It was an accident, but I could finally breathe.

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