Hypertextual Memory
Confession
BY LAURA KASISCHKE (Grand Rapids, MI, 1961)
Like an animal cut in half
Like its stomach full of stones
Like light pouring off of an accident—more light, and more
Like a shadow in a threshold
Like a document at the end of a corridor
Like human beings in pastures grazing
Like mourners, like horses
Like official violence
Torture
Like the hospital room of the child after the parents have left
Like facing your prom dress in your nakedness
Like facing Oblivion in your prom dress
Like black coffee spilled on the lilies
Like milk splashed onto the ashes
Here I come: The man dragging something
The thing he drags: Here I am
Laura Kasischke, "Confession” from Space, in Chains. Copyright 2011 by Laura Kasischke. All rights reserved.
Source: Space in Chains (Copper Canyon Press, 2011)
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