match my arrhythmic dialect— three syllables become two ky oat now transform a watershed— praying mantises latched onto your tongue crick draw a sonogram of me with the catechism lodged part way between my crop & gizzard my frequency range a wrong smell ringing off my hollow bones their scaffolding an impossible Fibonacci senses poor development in me commits infanticide to stop my infernal buzzing massacre a field of vowels inject them slantwise into your gumline ev dent pr t nearly watch as mosquitoes take away small parts of me raising my pitch my altitude—pine needles bowing over me like a soft cradle sap across my lips shhhhhhh now pinch my syrinx watch a kaleidoscope of nonlinear phenomena jump off the terminus of my throat deeper into the hardening clay my restless bronchi see ment
S.A. Leger is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and scientist from Newfoundland, Canada. Her poems have most recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Conduit, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Fourteen Hills, The Dodge, Storm Cellar, and Dunes Review, among others. She spends her days exploring the 47th parallel with her wife and dachshund.
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