Ask the Brindled by Noʻu Revilla

Author:Noʻu Revilla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Child: eat mother in public

For sisters who pray with fire

Dirtiest grand

we are the ones who know how to enter aunty v’s house and choose a bed. we know Our Fathers are inevitably our uncles plucking us like ‘opihi from fold-out tables. who were we before our skins bunched like salvation army skirts? or the moment smiling ruined our hips? we are the ones dreaming for tramp stamps, smoking menthols with our good-for-nothing mouths but at least she can pack left-overs. we’re the ones in the dark with our tits out on kiawe trees. quick rinsing in the sink. confessing back and forth on earth as it is in heaven. forgive us. our ache to cling disappeared. forgive aunty p. the clink of after-hours jewelry. forgive the god of heinekens, the gods of piss corners & belts. knowing who got who without asking. are we the dirtiest grand daughters come to bless uncle’s tarp? bluest tarp in Hāna. when the stink rises—because stink rises & never leaves—aunty v peels us out of bed like labels off beer, sends us not into temptation but the kitchen holding our own hair back. clean panties. cleaner sinks. anti-debutantes for spam and egg breakfast. while aunties flex a deck of cards for the first game of trumps that morning, we are the ones gently deciding who will sharpen the knives, who will chop onions, and who cleans the cutting board.

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