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An angry wind is coming, blood on the window
and haven't I been here before?
It's a long long time that we've been scraping our fingers
against the bottom of the bowl
and the howling outside just puts me to sleep
There is a lot of this world for us to waste
away
An angry fire is burning, blood on my front door
and what was it I meant to tell you?
It's a hard, hard road that we've been carving behind us
hoping to find one to follow
and the burning inside is what gives me these dreams
There is a lot of ourselves for us to waste
away
But I've been here before
and I've so much to tell you
and all the waste in the world
couldn't make up for this
An angry wind is coming
blood on my hands
and haven't I been here before?
It's a long long time that we've been scraping our fingers
against the bottom of the bowl
and the howling outside just puts me to sleep
There is a lot of this world for us to waste
away
An angry fire is burning, blood on my front door
and what was it I meant to tell you?
It's a hard, hard road that we've been carving behind us
hoping to find one to follow
and the burning inside is what gives me these dreams
There is a lot of ourselves for us to waste
away
But I've been here before
and I've so much to tell you
and all the waste in the world
couldn't make up for this
An angry wind is coming
blood on my hands
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exhibit.
Nanny thinks the carpet is too soft
to be my torturecage
and the sofa and endtables are poor
jailbars, but we
are feline and we're too tough to care
bigsister and littlesister are lioncubs today
baby lionesses, authentically,
we even lap milk from
ceramic bowls, bellies swollen from
the orders we give: 'emily, you're the
zookeeper.
Get us more milk.'
She hates serving us, she's only four
but she's getting strong and someday
she'll earn predator status.
(give thanks that we do not consume you, emily,
your fingers peek through the cagebars and
they are white and young and blood
is sweeter than breastmilk)
Roar. We are learni
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From Whence She Came
Back down to the sea-floor she goes
back to the coracle-clusters and starfish that
clamour, cling to her heart too tight,
walking barefoot towards where she
came from. It is too hard walking on
earth, the way she wears pain like a wedding ring
frightens people.
Back down, down, crawling on her belly
on the forest-floor, alive with the buzz and crawl
of worms and bird-prey. Back where she belongs with her
crazy palpitating wolf-heart, her bloody
deer-throat leaking in the snow, her yellow
eyes in the dark.
Back down, beyond subway trains, piano lessons,
falling rain, from whence she came, to the snow-covered womb
where she fir
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things i've yet to tell you.
i. last night i woke up just in time
to pronounce myself dead.
i figured, at the very least
i deserve to say it first.
i figure i've earned that much.
instant death- or
death in an instant-
allegedly painless.
they try to tell you
earnestly
"she never felt a thing"
ii. ryan,
remember that
your heart beats until it doe
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I like this.
One point of critique:
Enjambing 'away' to a line by itself in the first two strophes weakens them.
'Away' by itself has no strength of image, of connotation.
It is an affectation with no benefit to the poem.
However -
"There is a lot of this world for us to waste away"
"There is a lot of ourselves for us to waste away"
- as single lines these do have strength, and lose nothing by being a whole entity with 'away' included.
Anyway, that point aside, I like this.
Benedictions
One point of critique:
Enjambing 'away' to a line by itself in the first two strophes weakens them.
'Away' by itself has no strength of image, of connotation.
It is an affectation with no benefit to the poem.
However -
"There is a lot of this world for us to waste away"
"There is a lot of ourselves for us to waste away"
- as single lines these do have strength, and lose nothing by being a whole entity with 'away' included.
Anyway, that point aside, I like this.
Benedictions