Psalms
By Joy Ladin
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Psalms - Joy Ladin
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I make my bed in hell, and you are there . . .
Psalm 139
1
There’s nothing here
That’s not your fault, not bees’
Enslavement to nectar’s labyrinths,
Not the cacophonous greens
Shaking themselves out like tangled hair, not
The sinking shiver of my blood
Or the phantom footsteps of disease
That haunt my spinal column
Searching for bits of self to seize
The way you seize on bits of self
You somehow lost
In me, not the terror
Stirring my depths
Like the sea monsters you created
When you were in the creation business,
Not the bombs
Your children strap on
To detonate in streets crowded
With children you seem, in a flash,
To have forgotten. No, I can’t
Not blame you
For a single second
Of the light
That penetrates me non-consensually
Dawn after dawn, impregnating
With hope, desire, need
A body that couldn’t care