Uzumaki : The Spiral
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A pounding / between the walls / I hear a rattle in / my skull / and I know no one is / listening / I wonder / who can behave / becuase I don’t know how / to obey / except to sing a song / of lust and / stripped power / for the night / I feel like no one / is watching / I discover I’m not alone / and as the ancestors feel / they turn their big wheel / and they sing to me / through broken prophecies / and maybe i’m just stupid / dumb / broken / broken / broken / because I don’t know where to belong / and my vision goes / fuzzy / hazy / lazy / and I think to myself / what a terrible world / where monsters / grow and glow and sow / seeds into the ground / where we can’t find them / and I’m starting to think that I’m breaking / shattering / and that I can’t even write good / because formal grammar always escaped me / and my first letters were aleph bet / but I can’t even read / without the vowels / and someday my prince will come / and someday I’ll feel at ease / in my own body / but right now I don’t know where / I belong / and how to find a home.
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SARA WISER
is a musician, singer, actor, poet, and teaching artist. She is a student of Drama and Literature at American University in Washington, DC. Her work features musings on intimacy, love, loss, intergenerational trauma, sex, nature, and girlhood. Find more at www.sarawiser.com. |