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TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY
Suddenly I see that I have been wearing my mother’s body for a long time now. It all belongs to her, here where the skin is softest and here where it puckers in disgust—each inch. The very nails that pounded her body to pieces build me one just like it and I have been wearing it like a terrible house and never noticed all of it hers, except this mole on my arm—that belonged to my father’s mother and it was left to me to remind me that I am one of those witches, too, praying in the dry face of the moon while I walk around with death in my big breasts, like them, full already of my future scars and pain and hallucinations that shriek ahead like train tracks past this naked house across the self-pitying pleasureless decades left. I have turned my face to the wall to hide it while you slip my father’s angry face over yours.
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| LAURA KASISCHKE Source ■ Voir | écouter aussi ▼ → (sur Babelio) une notice bio-bibliographique sur Laura Kasischke → (sur Diacritik) Laura Kasischke, american poet (Mariées rebelles) par Christine Marcandier → le site personnel de Laura Kasischke → (sur le cercle POINTS) la fiche de l’éditeur sur Mariées rebelles → (sur YouTube) Laura Kasischke American Poet (table ronde American Poets du Festival America 2016 [salle Jim Harrison de l’Auditorium Cœur de Ville, Vincennes, septembre 2016], pour Mariées rebelles. Table ronde animée par Christine Marcandier [Diacritik]) → (sur le site de France Culture) Laura Kasischke, sorcière et poétesse (« Poésie et ainsi de suite » par Manou Farine, 29 septembre 2017) |
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