Imaginary Vessels by Paisley Rekdal

Author:Paisley Rekdal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2017-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

the tight braids my brother’s maid has bound

to my scalp, the wallpaper with its fists of buds,

its water stain from a summer storm that’s spread

to the shape and size of a body. To the size

almost of Aespaneo, who cried the day the soldiers

came for me, saying she could not bear to lose

another daughter. I think of her

only sometimes as I run my fingers over my face, feeling

the little ridges across my chin like the scar

I traced a final time on Mary Ann’s cheek. Mary Ann,

my true sister, who burned three days

to blindness with the fever from which, at the last,

neither Aespaneo nor I could save her.

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