Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Author:Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

by remembering, as she desperately closes her eyes

like fists and fights you to forget—

A woman you can’t stop loving, come bruise or blood shine.

Hold her, if you must, and leap into the river, its consoling water breaking

your fall. This is how love dies quietly in its sleep,

sinking into currents of contusions and reverie.

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\ \ n. 1. Auburn, gold, and blossom cherry: our fingers, two rings and my tongue along your ear/ Electric lighter, gas stove good time/ Praying for lightning. 2. Man-made, made man, fire. 3. This woman’s need for the family lost to the guerilleros/ This man’s efforts to be her village/ Inferno. 4. A bump barring in the words I don’t love you anymore as he kisses her belly for the Christmas card photo. 5. The end of an argument in the emergency room. 6. What we lost in the flames. \ \ v. 1. To nurse, cure with promises, a cocktail of words, each word mixed in to strengthen the other/ Marry me anyway. 2. To link by umbilical cord/ To cut the cord and hit the thing’s bottom so we hear it breathe. 3. To hear silence instead.

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