His: the tree that won’t shoulder the noose
His: Celan cusped in the precipice’s phalange
His: a herbarium pickled in scum and flu
His: a couture of surgical gowns
His: black plague Barcelona
The limbs of postlude; the limbs of Japanese
honeysuckle. His: viral nurseries. Taproots
flattened to carcasses of bamboo beetles
His: the shaved head of an Indian moonstone
His: the empty fist of a Faberge egg
His: the knuckle that knots disease with desire
Scherezade Siobhan is a psychologist, writer and the maker of world's finest Spanish omelettes. Her first poetry collection Bone Tongue was published by Thought Catalog Books in 2015. She can be found squeeing about small furry animals, football (the proper kind) & neuroscience at viperslang or @zaharaesque
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