SAINT JULIAN PRESS
Sarah Carey ~ Poet
Emergence
Inside my mother’s belly, body
of the borrowed, I burrow
within a womb, congealed--
my mise en abyme, a story within
a story to follow
but I can’t see to see. Sartre said
existence precedes essence, and it’s true
we moved through broken water,
laboring a life--
a picture of desire and infinite regret
till, reading to the end, we sense
the props all fall, and cued,
what’s left of us swims weightless back
through liquid day and night
to claim the moral,
mark our passages as one
as a hollow nesting doll emerges
from the matryoshka
in a child’s delight.
Inside my mother’s belly, body
of the borrowed, I burrow
within a womb, congealed--
my mise en abyme, a story within
a story to follow
but I can’t see to see. Sartre said
existence precedes essence, and it’s true
we moved through broken water,
laboring a life--
a picture of desire and infinite regret
till, reading to the end, we sense
the props all fall, and cued,
what’s left of us swims weightless back
through liquid day and night
to claim the moral,
mark our passages as one
as a hollow nesting doll emerges
from the matryoshka
in a child’s delight.
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Publication Date: September 15, 2024
Paperback: $18.00 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. Language: English Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-37-2 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-955194-38-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2024940118 Paperback: 114 pages For a PDF Advance Copy, contact Ron Starbuck. |
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