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her eyes closed the way my eyes sometimes close when I reach a hand
between my thighs pretend they’re someone else’s fingers that slide
the unsexiest pair of panties I own to the side of a lip her neck
outstretched the curve of her trachea like the bend of a hipbone
that peeks above the waistband of low-rise jeans her mouth open
—no agape— the same as the women on my computer screen
when they scream in what I’m supposed to believe is wonder
her face pale & older than mine maybe a few years possibly decades
—she’s ageless— her body still the way unmoving in my bed
unable to sleep again I picture her still when I close my eyes remember
how I sat stiff as frozen meat in the driver’s seat of a borrowed truck
the passenger side unrecognizable after she sped through the red light
& caused what the police called a t-bone collision & again I call my father
Yes he says she died she was dead
From Hunger Mountain Issue 23: Silence & Power, which you can purchase here.
Art by Sam Flora, curated by Dana Lyons.
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[av_one_half]Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. Her debut collection, FROM THE INSIDE QUIETLY, is the inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. A MacDowell fellow, she is the author of three chapbooks and founder/editor-in-chief of The Shallow Ends: A Journal of Poetry. Her poems and translations are published in New York Times Magazine, POETRY, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and others. Eloisa lives in Columbus, OH, and is the founder of Costura Creative. [/av_one_half]
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