I Come From A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen by Kari Gunter-Seymour

I Come From A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be Seen

by Kari Gunter-Seymour

published in her 2020 book, A Place So Deep Inside America It Can't Be

Seen, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions

White oaks thrash, moonlight driftsthe ceiling, as if I'm under water.Propane coils, warms my bones.

Gone are the magics and songs,all the things our grandmothers buried—piles of feathers and angel bones,

inscribed by all who came before.When I was twelve, my cousinscalled me ugly, enough to make i...