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Moon Child

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by Lisa Hiton



Like living inside an angiogram, I remember the womb—
 
Blood vessels illumined, eellike, hot to the touch. Moon
Child, I could hear my mother, muffled by
All the light and absence—
 
With you, ataxia wobbles my desires; haste to have what my mother had.
 
I think of these things to tell you when you are asleep:
Little pools of water filled with limbs. The sky is dull,
The sky in excess. I draw rings around your belly.
 
Sometimes I do things to you because I want you to do them to me.
 
In the morning, when you are still asleep, I reach my hand
Into your mouth, down through your chest. I turn your heart over.




first published in The Journal

 

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