Does she know the silver chain wrapping Around her ankle is terminal and deep As a trans-Atlantic cable connecting the island And here.
That a single full-breasted pull On a summer cigarette was Life altering. Her body was beach-burned, her hands Sifted grains of sand Funnelling beneath her thread-bare towel.
Our silver natal thread contracted As the blue smoke rose, Magnifying the August moon. Three hundred moons have dimmed.
We walked in step from the Village Through the park with the slack chain Dragging, scraping on cement. I have often polished that chain, Used muriatic acid to untarnish.
We didn't know our brains would Become onions behind our eyes; We didn't know towels would become Patchworks stitched over bones. I didn't know a chain of being could snap.
In Irish mythology, two people are born with an invisible (obviously) silver chain tied round their ankles. As time elapses, links disappear until the two are brought together. Clang.