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Birthday Meditations By Haro Lee
Birthday MeditationsMidnight is blue on your face. Your phone screen draws from you the first fireflies. Happy Birthday textslightening the eyes, bloom heart-shaped mushroom clouds, and settle. So they settle. Burdens of love dissolving.Thoughts take th…
Midnight is blue on your face. Your phone screen draws from you the first fireflies. Happy Birthday texts lightening the eyes, bloom heart-shaped mushroom clouds, and settle. So they settle. Burdens of love dissolving. Thoughts take their eternal postures in the mind. The bones say, how you must do better. There are good things you must do for your mother, who calved you so exquisitely. Took grief from you for years so you could be cleverer. Fed you milk for brittle thoughts. You wonder what she would tell you with Christ's blood raised high. Take better vows than mine. Straighten your spine. Bathe consistently. Idle less time listening to men. Indulge in sugar, beware sugared lips. Life is beautiful with your darkened knees. Look back at your sloppy nights in parking lots with love, for you were brought here to do it all. Dare to be doomed to repeat it again. Simply scrub your underwear with peroxide to remove the stains. In your house there is no shame. You will shed something today. In hours, the ancestors will take their tongues and lap the sky clean, leaving your future buoyed with the satellites and those one or two remaining stars. Grieve, and you will be better. Every day, you will rise.
By Haro Lee
Biography:
Haro Lee lives in South Korea with her grandmother. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Zone 3 Press, The Offing, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. She was also the recipient of Epiphany Magazine's Breakout 8 Writers Prize. You can find her @pilnyeosdaughter.
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