“She Shifts to Face the Window” by E.C. Belli

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Nobody knows him. Not even she.
Sometimes though, when he can’t understand

the memory shaking her,
when she seems to have escaped a world

wild with ferocity, he thinks he loves her
more than anyone yet. She is pale, easy

to wrinkle, readable as Proust. She is long,
too long to explain. She comes

in volumes. Tomes. She is described
at length, never captured. Tangled veins

show around her nipples. Her neck is a swan’s—
she is part bird, that much he knows.

When he brings her darkness, she falls
asleep. Often, he turns her, halfway

through the night, to face him
and often, when she’s engulfed

in the dream, he cups her hands in his
and promises that together they will go

farther than either ever alone.
Tonight as he mutters again

endless words of expatriation
never to materialize,

he feels a flutter
inside the cage his fingers create,

the brush of feathers against his palms.
Infused for so long

with thoughts of a salutary journey,
she has begun to migrate without him.

E.C. Belli,
plein jeu
(Accents Publishing)

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