appealing

The Maynard
Spring 2016

Alison Braid
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There’s So Much to Tell You

How my fist won’t fit in my mouth,
that I sit still trying to unlearn my reflection,
this body like the taut skin of a balloon.
Evenings hang heavy from their hooks.

I sit still trying to unlearn my reflection.
What more can follow? Evenings hang
heavy from their hooks. Yesterday,
I overheard one gardener ask the other:

what more can follow?  It was spring
and he was sunk in tulips.
I overheard one gardener tell the other:
I feel like that invisible man stoned in the snow.

It was spring and he was sunk in tulips.
I think I wanted to love him. I feel
like that invisible man stoned in the snow.
His knees were soiled full moons when he stood.

I think I wanted to love him.
There’s so much to tell you. His knees
were soiled full moons when he stood. My hands
in their old way, hold nothing near.