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 poetry is forthcoming in The Marlowe Review and she is an editor at The Saartjie Journal.
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