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At your bedside

By Mary Catherine Kinniburgh ·

Probing deeper, into smaller pockets of feelings
I will say your name again tomorrow

the word like wet mud, firming primordial.
I pause to explore the architecture of this sensation—

the act of placing a spoon in your mouth. You ask my name.
I close my eyes, sealing within me

a river strewn with loving golden hands.
I stack impressionable wounds as I slowly start

to remove the flowers from within your ribs.
Asleep in this bleached place, a separate world,

we insert our fingers into the same quiet sinkhole
and I imagine the center of a forest,

widening light, as I remove the spoon from your mouth
and you are choking for a moment—

I form the question: what is in the urn,
the urn, my heart?

 

 

 

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Mary Catherine Kinniburgh

Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is a doctoral student at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she studies medieval literature. When she’s buried deep in the library, she writes poems too. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Underwater New York, Hobart, and The Glasgow Review of Books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and four rescue cats.

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