On What You Used To Be

 

Dream of the Huntress
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Robin Robertson
 
 
It is always the same:
she is standing over me

in the forest clearing,
a dab of blood on her cheek
from a rabbit or a deer.
I am aware of nothing

but my mutinous flesh,
and the traps of desire

sent to test it—
her bare arms, bare

shoulders, her loosened hair,
the hard, high breasts,

and under a belt
of knives and fish-lures,

her undressed wound.
Every night the same:

the slashed fetlock,
the buckling under;

I wake in her body
broken, like a gun.
 
 
 
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