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16 Traumas

Kyle Hemmings

Your new girlfriend
with the buttermilk smile
one lazy eye
was once somebody’s overpriced vampire
with flawless teeth
succulent skin.
These days
so many obituaries
are in between the lives.

Her words
are bats at the window
or finely sharpened
a set of paring knives
that make you peel
in nonsense syllables.
By morning,
the obtuse angles
of blending shadows
are legible.

But because
you are nothing
but the memory of 16 traumas
under rabbit-soft sheets,
your father tearing
your paper moons
or your mother’s eyes
as distant as candles
in someone else’s window
that old neighborhood
of scar-thin silence—
you follow.



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