Breathing In Water Is Not Being Drowned
Annie Blake
for Reave
/ hair and my water wake dress / clockless
and are a singing / for the whole
in my skin is a spinning wheel / chamber music gaunts
my house / i am middle
aged / yet i do not know my hands /
so the body cordons the upper
stairs / woman with a halo / her long golden
hair and a siren of stars / rapunzel river /
lioness / emaciated and decapitated / lured
up in her virgin’s pond / my father’s last song was
melancholia / so i slept with my
mother / winter’s hymen broke and round
the simple solstice sun /
and so i waited for them to die / for she now was young
and her legs like milk / unwrinkled and seductive
silks / her body / tendril lithe
for this was the first time she would climb the rose and thorn /
/ for she was always cut in half and her sleep
salt and peppered / and i
would pray that a hundred years of sleep /
so to mitigate but i must learn to indulge
the sorrows that growl in bird bellies / newborn the sly
hours my mother cries / to decry / i settle the seam of her furbelow
/ wide open / and fondle her madness
like fruit / but she is an old woman /
and i / slung from the strings of her waist /
for i have discovered bones there and my father’s
red buttons / body vestiges / and a sugary moon
as heavy as the golden egg / o never night fixed
in her bitter belly /
a galaxy and the mixing of a million moons /
Annie Blake (BTeach, GDipEd) is a divergent thinker, a wife and mother of five children. She commenced school as an EAL student and was raised and, continues to live in a multicultural and industrial location in the West of Melbourne. She enjoys experimenting with Blanco’s Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Logic to explore consciousness and the surreal and phantasmagorical nature of unconscious material. Her work is best understood when interpreting them like dreams. She is an advocate of autopsychoanalysis and a member of the C G Jung Society of Melbourne, Australia. You can visit her on annieblakethegatherer.blogspot.com.au and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009445206990.