Kitchen Prep

By | 1 May 2017
I have done this before

hours pull and twist while splitting seconds bleed. 

(eat your damn food. you’ll be hungry later)

garlic sticks to skin

hours pull and twist while bleeding seconds split

as water follows my spine, bent down.

“This is your favourite! Why aren’t you—”

water follows spine, bent down.

needles of sleep bloom silver in my mouth

“It’s your favourite! Why can’t you—”

My throat cracks around a breathing tube

needlesleep silvers my mouth

(eat your damn food. you’ll be hungry later)

I split down the middle, eyes stuck with salt

I have done this before.
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Kit Kavanagh-Ryan is a queer crip poet and academic based in Melbourne, whose recent publications include works for Australian Literary Studies, Australian Poetry Journal and spoken word for David Bridie's It's been a while since our last correspondence. When not falling over, she thinks and writes about the weird and lovely ways bodies and minds work together while completing graduate studies at Deakin university. While falling over, she's still doing that, just slower.

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