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Old 03-05-2013, 02:26 PM   #6 (permalink)
katsy
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One more from Best New Poets 2011. Another poem on the darker side. The theme today seems to be child abuse.

Ash Bowen
How Gravity Hated Us

My sister was the first to learn how gravity hated
our family--a spinning plunge into the gorge

of echoy quartz when she failed to cling
to air like Father imagined. Her hollow bones

made him certain she'd been born
for flight so he'd splayed her among the tools of his shop

and stripped the rivets from her body,
took her inside his shower and shaved her

nose into a beak. Her talons scratched
for balance as she crept across her perch,

eyes rolling over the canyons as she stumbled
into free-fall and Earth climbed up to meet her.

She rose, coughing teeth into her palms,
shivering impact rubble from her shoulders,

trembling in the feathery shadow of our father
whose fingers were already fitting me with wings.
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