Wagner, Sara Moore

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HALCYON DAYSSARA MOORE WAGNERSome days I am acutely aware of fragility,the way your mother watches your fatherfavor his good leg, how you trace the lengthof his femur with your eyes.We protect our pain like eggs,tucked up under or inside-The wind blows us awayfrom everything we bury and hatch.Let me keep you, squeezedinto the flesh ship you pilotday to day, let me anchor you to the earthwith my own skin and bone, pretendwe were not made to love and lose itto love and lose it. To lose. That I could beatmy breasts so hard, the stars would hear me,would take me into the sea, would birthme again as a shell or sound: as if those thingscould stay here. All I know about death is thattoday is not the day I'll have to walk throughthe vined woods, roots forming at my feet,carry your body on my backthrough the undergrowth, dropyou in a crowd and fire, look back:there you are, bobbing on the surfaceof the sky, skin feathered, the bones of your face.971Wagner: Halcyon DaysPublished by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2019

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