Not Language:
By Minadora Macheret
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That which comes before mama as the ink of the eye. A rustle in the lining the fluid disrupts, amniotic the womb & mouth it cherishes. Now, lapushka —your cellular prison is motherly fear & hope. The baby becomes viable, 24 weeks, & slips past the need for developed organs, a continued cocoon, a survival wide as the palm of your hand. The wound of arrival is just enough to signal desire, live— away from sustenance, the first sound through which you enter your own lungs
Minadora Macheret is a Herbert Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. She received the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Salamander, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018).
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