Louise Glück wrote that the “woman’s body is a grave.”

The Animal of Truth

You’ll get no arguments from me.

I’ve been watching my aunt sink ever more into it.

 

In this light

I can see the animal of truth

become you

unleashing equal parts delirium

and deliverance.

What can Time take

that you have not already

let go?  Sight, sound, taste

returned to the next in line.

How expert you have become

in looking into the space

behind your eyes.

— “Animal of Truth” by Jiwon Choi