from Saint XDo immortal creatures exist? Part of me has lived forever part of me is already dying when I wade into the late August stink of a pond I must touch again some part of last summer's algae bloom how exhausting to start and start again better to continue flea eggs live dormant in the sofa through winter's long cool and hatch in May an invasion never sleeps if I were glass would I also be ocean would I also be driftwood a doorframe if the same bit of ocean licks my skin twice does the fabric of the universe tear and make a new gash for me to walk through how long must I stay in the universe's outer threshold what will it sound like when I leave Caroline Cabrera is author of Saint X, winner of the Hudson prize and forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in January 2018. Her previous collections include The Bicycle Year, Flood Bloom, and the chapbook Dear Sensitive Beard. She is editor of Bloom Books from Jellyfish and lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. |