Like We Still Speak by Danielle Badra

Author:Danielle Badra [Badra, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610757515
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Fire

give me an ancient song

and I’ll give you a forbidden light

syllables that slide from front teeth

as backdrop for gods to grow colors

from pinpricks into calligraphic prints

of my mother

she is not the sun

she is what comes after: you

are made in her image

are dancing in her clothes

my wild hair

in the spring wind glows

I carve shadows at the ground

beneath your feet

Lunacy

I will not be a crazy woman—

your masterpiece— whatever that means.

I do not revere lunacy

the art of subjugation in full moonlight:

you want me framed my brain and belly

on your wall dance in separate directions.

The artist paints around an abandoned bonfire

to glorify himself composed of canonical books.

But I do not revere gold leaf paper flames swirl

your self-obsession up in a gust of cold air.

I cannot sit still I melt slowly

for portraits like soft leather bindings.

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