10/21/2019 The Boy by Christine Higgins tubb CC
The Boy The boy who needs his own poem. The boy who has her heart. Not figuratively, as in love, but literally, as in muscle. Two ventricles that pump his blood, his blood, his blood. It’s the heart I made and desired for her to have forever and a day, imagining she would travel the wide world without me, and her heart would be full with life’s treasures. If I ever knew his race or his age I don’t remember. I only know she wanted this, asked her father: Does it say on your license you’re an organ donor? The boy, too, is my child, is he not? And yet I can’t imagine meeting him, seeing his face, or feeling his embrace. For what would it be like, to hold on and not want to let go? Heart of my heart. Christine Higgins is a McDowell Colony fellow and the recipient of Individual Artist Awards in Poetry and Non-Fiction from The Maryland State Arts Council. Her work has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals. Hello, Darling, won 2nd place in the Poetry Box chapbook competition and is due out in January 2020. Her full-length manuscript, Hallow, is due out by Cherry Grove Collections in Spring 2020. You can visit her website at christinehigginswriter.com. |
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