Siren

by Bruce Bond

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This piece is part of our Fall 2018 print issue.

Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty books including, most recently, Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize; Gold Bee (Helen C. Smith Award, Crab Orchard Award); Sacrum; Blackout; Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (L.E. Phillabaum Award; Dear Reader;l and Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Poetry Prize. Presently he is Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

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It’s as if each morning were a pool into which I have been lowered. Or I dove in and now sit on my blue sofa at the bottom of the sky, swathed in a milky substance amid the trilling of crickets. A few minutes ago my husband clinked his spoon to his cereal bowl,

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When the nurse unbandaged my head, I realized I couldn’t speak in the old language; the muscle of my mind knew no way to hold the cleverness of its bons mots. All through my body the ache of accident persisted. Reader, you cannot know how I want this poem to end in morning glories on

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