
Hannah Seo
when I see all I've never been
Updated: May 29, 2020
stern man in white coat tells me I have been coddling my young
that my porcelain children have turned rotten and sickly under my care
they are corrupt he informs me they are agents who would seek to
pollute life’s stream he says & so my pearls are expelled from me as
the body rejects the body as we release what is no longer ours to keep
I ask the fairy queen if it was she who had made an ass of me or
if that too was self - inflicted I am maple drained of sweetness whittled
to a point I am a chamois of the carpathians drilling you dead in
the eye I am the baron sitting so pleasantly in line for the throne
asking in fog what is a decision & fast asleep what is a child
This poem was originally published in Paragon Press in Aug. 2019.