Fenichell, Loisa

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Gandy Dancer ArchivesVolume 7Issue 2 Best of Gandy Dancer 2012-2018 Article 145-1-2019Prayers for VagabondLoisa FenichellSUNY Purchase CollegeFollow this and additional works at: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/gandy-dancerPart of the Poetry CommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by KnightScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gandy Dancer Archives by an authorizededitor of KnightScholar. For more information, please contact KnightScholar@geneseo.edu.Recommended CitationFenichell, Loisa (2019) "Prayers for Vagabond," Gandy Dancer Archives: Vol. 7 : Iss. 2 , Article 14.Available at: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/gandy-dancer/vol7/iss2/1482  LoisA FENiChELLLOISA FENICHELLPrayers for VagabondI.When Achilles fell in love with me I wantednot to kill myself but die with my stomachblown straight through in violence of crashing like cars.Achilles with his hair that sagged like my breasts: our waysof returning back to this earth. My breasts draggedacross the skin of earth, which is why they bruisedto bone & back, but still this was the only wayI could know how to survive like herds of planets.II. I know that my mother loves me even when Icannot return this love because she will driveto me at 3 a.m., touch blow light gentle againstmy cheeks, then yell at me like the spots festeringwhite sprays of mucus down my throat. III. Picture god’s leap of moon through my mother’s bedroom walls.I visit my mother & am surprised when she does not strangle melike the heel of Achilles, who still loves me. How can Iseparate him from my mother. There is never musicin my mother’s house. The silence is constant & buzzingGANDY DANCER  83like the headaches that I used to get when I was young& sitting by cold rolls of saltwater.IV. Gold wheat bombards itself through my mother’s kitchen window.7 a.m. I am only 1 of 2 awake in my mother’s house. The fridgeis shined & opening like the uprising of a new country.Out the window still rests Achilles & he is teaching me to beg.

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