Soft Volcano by Libby Burton

Author:Libby Burton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

American Cosmology

My mother pressed eight plum-sized lungs

into this unforgiving world

but she failed each one. Or they did. Or she did.

Then she hefted the wet want of me

into a place that would never be new again.

Now an economy of nostalgia

for what never was makes some ghosts rich.

I own immense educational debt and too many

hypotheticals stacked like steak dinners,

warm and waiting with richness.

So how is it I can move these ocean limbs

to leave this bed each day.

And how did I even learn the shape

of tenderness, but in the two sweet hoods

over mud-wanting eyes. If I were

the first. Or the second. Or never.

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