Posthemorrhagic

from Volume Five by Quietus

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Is it cheating if we just drink tea
and feel nervous in a city park aching for trees,
if our aging hearts are silent when they leap
and no one notices the way your throat turns blue?
Is it love for the stomach thus to ache
like the week his mother fed him only cake
as she smoked and spoke of the horror men make,
curled her hair and prepared to leave him for one?
Is it happiness to be posthemorrhagic
and be willing to give up on all of it,
to lessen what you need from those that you love
to nothing, oh, to nothing?
If you could calm the hive of the collar and hands for her,
If you could unswell her saddened tongue with listening,
If you could worry a pocket stone smooth for her to carry,
If you could be the body and mind that get her tumult of anger,
Why wouldn’t you?
Is it enough to laugh only near the edge of the sea
and otherwise protect the mouth from splitting its seams?
It’s a quiet, nearly unspoken poetry
that’s like fighting, but not to win. Just fighting.
Is it beauty to listen to your body break through its center,
and thereafter to talk and to love only from great distances?
If you could break his mouth so full of entitlement and laughter,
If you could abandon the family sick and begin whatever comes after,
If you could secure a love for her, conversation and then a chapter,
If you could sit in silence, safely near deep water,
Why wouldn’t you?

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from Volume Five, released November 6, 2020

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