Winter 2013: Poetry
Placental Abruption
by Larina Warnock
Every other midnight, he remembers my olive skin paling with anemic potential. He says that death swept over me in less than a heartbeat, that the sound of my heart echoed through white-washed rooms like the gallop of a hundred horses charging, while blood gushed from a wound no one could see. For days, they wouldn’t give me a mirror. He says they didn’t want me to see how pigment had left my face, how death looked less like porcelain than raw marble, my features chiseled and unfinished while my lips moved in stone-like scrapes to ask again and again for the child then a hundred miles away. We’ve mostly forgotten, except for every other midnight when he trails his fingers along my blotched bikini line – a smile-shaped scar to remind – and I turn to the sound of the child down the hall, and back to his eyes. The memory bleeds fear into the space between what is and what might have been.
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