Sugar Magnolia Wilson

1 | 2 | 3

Muddy Heart

You'll lie down one day on the field behind
your house and your heart will turn
to mud.
Dandelions will push up through the earth, your
blood mingling to a rich beet coloured soil,
your bones some kind of ash like your father uses
around the strawberry plants.
Clover and pennyroyal will take seed on you.
You'll call out in the fading light for your dad,
who is, after all, just over the fence in the house – but you'll
sound like the long grass, the frogs, the dogs herding cattle.
When he eventually comes looking for you
however many years later
there will be only the green flush of land down toward
the road, the river and a patch of grass
where he will tend to sit from now on.

___________
More :
Johanna Aitchison | Jane Blaikie | Ross Brighton | James Brown (translated by Jan Wagner) | Michael Farrell | Jessica Hansell | Siobhan Harvey | Rebekah Holt | Lynn Jenner | Michele Leggott | Frankie McMillan | Hannah Mettner | Jo Morris | Andrew Nance | Bill Nelson | Lee Posna | Manon Revuelta | Laura Sims | Adam Stewart | Jared Wells | Nick Williamson | Alex Mitcalfe Wilson |