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The Vulture and The Body

On my way to the fertility clinic,
I pass five dead animals.
First a raccoon with all four paws to the sky
like heʼs going to catch whatever bullshit load
falls on him next.
Then, a grown coyote, his furred golden body soft
against the white cement lip of the traffic barrier.
Trickster no longer, an eye closed to whatʼs coming.
Close to the water tower that says 'Florence Yʼall'
which means iʼm near Cincinnati, but still in the
bluegrass state and close to my exit, I see three dead
deer, all staggered but together, and I realize as I speed
Past in my death machine that they are a family.
I say something to myself thatʼs between a prayer and
a curse – how dare we live on this earth. I want to tell
my doctor about how we all hold duality
in our minds: futures entirely different,
footloose or forged.
I want to tell him how lately, itʼs enough to be
reminded that my
body is not just my body, but that Iʼm made of old stars
and soʼs he,
and that last Tuesday I sat alone in the car
by the post office and
just was for a whole hour, no one knowing how
to find me, until I got out, the sound of the car door
shutting like a gun, and mailed letters,
all of them saying: 'Thank you'.
But in the clinic, the sonogram wand
showing my follicles, he asks
if I have any questions,
and says: 'Things are getting exciting'.
I want to say: 'But what about all the dead animals?'
But he goes quicksilver, and Iʼm left
to pull my panties up like a big girl. Some days
there is a violent sister inside of me,
and a red ladder that wants to go elsewhere.
I drive home on the other side of the road,
going south now.
The white coat has said Iʼm ready,
and I watch as a vulture
Crosses over me, heading toward
the carcasses I havenʼt properly mourned or even forgiven.
What if, instead of carrying
a child, I am supposed to carry grief?
The great black scavenger flies parallel now,
each of us speeding, intently and driven,
toward what weʼve been
taught to do with death.
 

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