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Two Poems by Emily Schulten<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Dismantling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2022\/09\/Schulten-Dismantling.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n

\nThey’re taking off the head of the snake,
\nand we are watching to remember\nwhat we worry won’t exist once we can’t
\nsee it anymore. First, they remove the tongue,\nslippery from its metal mouth. This is
\none of the last of these metal giants,\ntowering so great that it marks its place
\nin our memories, doesn’t change quick like\nthe landscape around it. They have packed up
\nthe left edge of the cobra’s hood and are moving\ntheir crane to the right. You can see now
\nthat it is empty inside, but when we drove by\nagain and again-because we wanted to be
\ntaken back to another time-that time-\nit was solid and permanent. Now
\nwe feel empty, too. They are down\nto the coils of the body, the place where
\nthe snake is rooted to the ground-\nwas rooted. We mourn the soldered bones.
\nNext door, there used to be an open-mouthed\nfish, sucking in the whole sky until the palms
\ngrew unruly and branched into its mouth.\nA genie marked the next town over, his blue
\nface waking the streets from nighttime each day,\nuntil he was taken from his magic carpet,
\nuntil the magic was gone altogether. The snake\nhas been stacked onto a flatbed trailer,
\nthe dirt damp with earthworms beneath\nwhere his body sat before being driven
\nto a junkyard between stretches of Florida\nfarm town. We stand on the roadside
\nand draw with our fingers on the sky\nwhat used to be there, far more looming
\nnow that it is made of emptiness and cloud.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nA fresh coat of paint covers everything
\nand hides nothing, stubby Roman columns
\nzigzag like teeth along the banisters
\nand they cut, too, inside my hip bones.
\nAnd inside the rooms the walls are empty.
\nThere is nothing beautiful anymore
\nabout my body. We will try again
\ntomorrow and tomorrow. And we’ll fail.
\nAll three nights a child’s wail swelters through
\nthe courtyard, and on the third night I leave
\nour room propped open and put my ear to
\ndoor after door frantic to find the cry.
\nBut I don’t. I crawl back to bed, my whole
\ntorso a clenched jaw waiting to let go.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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