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[jezabel.livejournal.com]

In the soapy water our bodies steamed
like newborns still flushed from the womb's caul.
This bath was our farewell ritual: We'd played

Hide the Soap and Tropical Rain Forest.
In the fogged mirror our forms
had merged and come untwined.

The clock ticked down to my dawn flight,
but this time a vow had been spoken,
a bond entered into, unwitnessed

by any assembly but nonetheless
sacred. The ring on my hand shone
with the firmament's starlight. Though candles around us

guttered and the water cooled and each cupped
the other's face with withered hands, our bodies
steamed, our tired souls could not stop rising.


Mary Karr; "Adieu"
Viper Rum

Comments

[mariaklob.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[iatrogenicmyth.livejournal.com]

I really like the poems recently posted by her.

Isn't she an author? or written memoirs?

[jezabel.livejournal.com]

She's written two really amazing memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. I love them so much I bought her poetry collection even though I generally don't like poetry and seriously, the entire book is just like this.

[archethereal.livejournal.com]

That's just fucking poetry. Thanks so much for sharing. You've always had great taste in literature.

[jezabel.livejournal.com]

thanks!
really, the whole collection is amazing.