all honey calf

miracle thornton

dear nana, 

did you know it would smell like that day i took the time to kiss my 

lover awake my baby cried i soothed her with honeysuckles & a wishbone 

in the mirror i knew memories should not be trusted that day my lover 

said i am hollow though i am soggy i took the bread from the freezer to the 

toaster & it fused to the inside the firelight my baby was golden last 

night my lover peeled tissues apart & laid them on ice cubes told me to 

watch how they fused skin cotton to ice coals where there are holes in my 

throat scabbed with fistfuls of baby powder in my lover there are lesions 

a thick gullet blistering where her lungs collapsed under the weight of 

smoke i want to know what my baby was thinking in the fire that day i 

knew memories were the devil’s scripture because i lowered my baby into 

her long grave naked & wondrously awake. dear nana, i made a fire & threw 

in my baby my baby, dear nana, my belly is galled. dear nana, i heard that 

good calves come needlessly today i sat by the fire & breathed in my 

baby’s smell blood water & milk up rose a sliver of my lover instead 

lost in the fire my baby in the fire my lover rakes over the coals & tells me 

look look

look