EAVAN BOLAND of Dublin, Ireland is the author of The War Horse and New Territory.  Anorexic  is from a new collection of poems, In Her Own Image, to be published this spring

Boland, Eavan

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Ontario ReviewVolume 12 Spring-Summer 1980 Article 6December 2014AnorexicEavan BolandFollow this and additional works at: http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreviewPart of the Poetry CommonsFor more information, please contact southerr@usfca.edu.Recommended CitationBoland, Eavan (2014) "Anorexic," Ontario Review: Vol. 12, Article 6.Available at: http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/vol12/iss1/6Anorexic EAVAN BOLAND Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it. Yes I am torching her curves and paps and wiles. They scorch in my self-denials. How she meshed my head in the half-truths of her fevers! till I renounced milk and honey and the taste of lunch. I vomited her hungers. Now the bitch is burning. I am starved and curveless. I am skin and bone. She has learned her lesson. Thin as a rib I turn in sleep. My dreams probe a claustrophobia, a sensuous enclosure. How warm it was and wide once by a warm drum, once by the song of his breath and in his sleeping side. 19 Published by USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, 2014Only a little more, only a few more days sinless, foodless, I will slip back into him again as if I had never been away. Caged so I will grow angular and holy past pain, keeping his heart such company as will make me forget in a small space the fall into forked dark, into python needs heaving to hips and breasts and lips and heat and sweat and fat and greed. 20 http://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/vol12/iss1/6

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