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THIS WAS MY AMERICA
these bodies we had fashioned were never
quite as comfortable as we hoped they would
look, and it was easy then (necessary, I mean)
to blur our margins in the evenings, swallowing
those clear fire liquids we had so vigilantly
selected for their proof, a word we wanted to
exchange for its other meaning, and which we
almost managed on certain nights when it came
in the shift of their eyes, in the stretch of their
hands first and then--yes, it was a kind of
victory--in the thrust of their bodies, these touches
then the sharp little stones of evidence to walk
across as we picked our way home in the deep
dark or that thin dawn, our bodies no longer blurred
but muscles spent with the tedious work of harvesting
the proof that what we'd done, what we would do
again to fashion our flesh, just so, was no longer
an answer, but even less a question.
Michelle Bailat-Jones, Puidoux, Switzerland