You stare at me
eyes floating in pools
I can’t look at you
You sliced up our life
Cut my eyes out
I bleed clear
glass from what is deep and fragile
soak you with
Waterblood
If only tears left scars
reminders
etched words
(our wedding glasses etched
—remember)
Marriage bones broken
us bones broken—if only I knew, YOU SAID.
-breathe-
I fucking know
I can hear bones
cracking in splinters
chewed birdpromises
bitten in half
We suck out the marrow now?
We eat the brown blood of broken bone?
Gnash glass with teeth?
Chewthepieces
Swallow s l o w
(I will)
Ginny Eggleston A writer, Montessori teacher, and member of the 25th Army Band living in Kuna, Idaho, Ginny is also a wife and the mother of two beautiful children.