Su Zi
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to live in a disabled body
to turn the deaf ear
skyward
where bloom the flowers of evil
that root in growling ground
sightless with nausea
folded
undone
a disabled body
the scarring to vision
line is lost to light
this disabled body
your food poisons me
ears to knees
i am oozing
i am writhing,
fevered and drenched
the spasms the heartbeat the spasms the hours
this body
this knot of bones
breathes
is but a wafer of flesh
come find me in the midnight
i am usually naked
only the unseeing air touches me
i cannot help but offer myself
back into the ages of now
in the mirror is the eroded beach of ancestors
offer my fragile self
half a haunt and haunted
trembling with tachycardia
trembling in the heat.