the death of a woman I will never know<\/p>\n
is ticking inside me\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 waiting to catch fire<\/p>\n
an incendiary device of the historical kind<\/p>\n
my mother curled into herself\u00a0\u00a0 shadowed<\/p>\n
my father dribbling gruel onto his chin<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
this is my palimpsest\u00a0\u00a0 the charcoal bleeding<\/p>\n
onto this paper\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the way my mother\u2019s past<\/p>\n
bled into the air around her\u00a0\u00a0 smoke<\/p>\n
the way my father\u2019s magic powers unraveled<\/p>\n
a tangle of tarnished medals in a drawer<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
so I call my demons to heel with bravado<\/p>\n
spinning before them like a tamer of the wild<\/p>\n
although my demons were never so graceful<\/p>\n
so beautiful\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 never so easily subdued<\/p>\n
no. my demons wear familiar shapes<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
my mother curled into herself<\/p>\n
my father watching nothing<\/p>\n
while I write incantations on water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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