Petrified animals mock my transformation
the {{People}} are entranced
read: entrapped.
A stranger chops off my feet and replaces them with the head of a broom
He has cut the tip of my tongue
I cannot tell anyone this man will kill me:
this is intimate
this is violence.
I know everyone who is witnessing this.
I swallow myself cut by cut.
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Anna Zarra Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based scholar and poet. Her work frequently deals with themes of embodiment and environmentalism. Her poetry has recently appeared in Street Cake Mag, Uppagus, and Twin Pies Literary.
