Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction by Stephen Kotowych

Author:Stephen Kotowych [Edited by Stephen Kotowych]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ansible Press
Published: 2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Endless Library - Ulmo

Rapunzel in the Desert

Melissa Yuan-Innes

I

My once-soft hands

Roughened by sand and wind

My breasts, continually swollen and emptied

By ravenous twin mouths

My eyes, gritty with still more sand and wind.

Still, I sing and weave

Trading for rice and dates

And the occasional bite of camel or lamb.

II

Mother Godel sheared my head.

Now I pluck the hairs myself

To make strong, fine sewing threads

Or to plait into sturdy belts or ropes

My voice, I raise in song

For the mother fatigued by hours of labour,

For the couple joined in ceremony,

Or for the soul laid to rest.

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