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Heather Hughes: Asterisk

August 24, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I am not
coming into the thickness

of trees; I’m not coming for
your body.

Slaughtered scenery
shut out

by blackout curtains.
Hazard and home

were your specialty, not mine.
Mine the ghost:

six teardrops
sprout from my center.

I covet a seed-sepulcher,
miniature infinity

where my wisp-thin
rootlets would wrap,

kindly, into your dark
topiary demesne.

But the inevitable censor
intervenes,

stars out
my garbled paean.

I’m done. Hang
my curdled zero-dream

in the garden to twist
and die. Unzip

the back
of my parenthesis dress.

Filed Under: Contributors 96, Issue 96, Poetry, Poetry 96 Tagged With: contributors 96, Heather Hughes, issue 96, Poetry, poetry 96

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