Waterfall by Melissa Broder
The most romantic thing a human being can say
to another human being is Let me help you vomit.
No human being has ever said this to me
& I keep going to god too clean as though god
is frightened of muddy feet. If I am missing
a hairpin I don’t go at all. Please describe
your vomiting; it is like a psalm for me
a place where wilderness might be new.
Other people’s dirt makes a lovely frock.
Grant I be forgiven in the gush.
* * *
Melissa Broder’s second poetry collection, Meat Heart, is out today from Publishing Genius, and I cannot wait to read it. Broder edits La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series at Cakeshop in NYC. By day, she is a publicity manager at Penguin. Find more of her poems here.
(Source: The Awl)
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