Build God then we'll talk
- To give away:
- small white cardboard boxes, unmarked
- what is yours to give
- unwrapped in promises of holidays and Christmases
- a heart inside every one:
- of feather, of velvet of almost-flesh
- to enable multiple emotions, most unnamable,
- and unhindered flow of confusion;
- who wouldn't benefit from a spare heart?
- Though a heart may be used as a bandage
- it works best if you swallow it
- if you cut a slit through the chest bone
- with a saw,
- minute precision
- shove it in
- swallow
- then let it rock you when it is cold: back and forth, back and forth
- and from sawdust and rags make dolls that long for a heart
- as if that is something to be desired
- Ksenija Simic-Muller once lived in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, where she published a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. She now spends most of her time being an educator focusing on social justice mathematics. She is not related to Charles Simic.
