Susan Milchman

THE ART OF DUALITY
a golden shovel after Anne Sexton



i am    half decaying farm house    i
am    half silvered dreamscape    i have

a mouth    a womb    vacancies that have been
stitched shut    a blade of opposites carve    & cut

away    my dress of silence    please find my bones    buried in
the dirt    every fresh mound of earth    holds a secret    a spine / split in two.


 * line from “For the Year of the Insane”


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