| Choiselle Joseph
 
 
 on the car ride home from your tubal ligation
 
 
 you pinched the moon from its socket    mangled it in your teeth like a mint    wet   mushy   and twirling on your tongue   you reached through the window   through the nights cool gasp   stuck it back in place   its craters still glistening with your spit   you unspooled orions en garde   draped him round your wrist like sterling   morning after   hips full of embers   you tucked the rising sun   behind your ear   with a whistle scattered its rays   like dandelion seeds   as light as your knit insides   shoulder blades   ribcage   stretched to the burstbrink   like rubber swollen trembling with helium   even with ache       weightless
 
 
 Choiselle Joseph is a writer from Barbados. Her writing centres gender, the body, and decolonisation and their current project is Hummingbird , an in-progress chapbook exploring daughterhood through myth and surreal imagery. They are an editor at  The Saartjie Journal . |