Small Mothers of Fright by Tara Bray

Author:Tara Bray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Ordinary girls at a birthday party, we snatched butterflies when they lit on the azaleas, collected them in Mason jars, dipped cotton balls in ammonia, and pressed them into the small dark faces to make them die. Thrilled, we wiped chalkiness from our hands. With so little meat on bones and half-aware, our existence so concentrated it hurts to look back on.

III.

No Wisdom

She swears by the dirt flavor of field peas,

the dazzle of purple hulls torn open, bared.

She is tired of waking,

lusts for a smooth knob of arrogance in her hand,

keeps quiet because she’s never seen a barn owl in the wild,

its empty face—clean and speechless.

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