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At a Waterfall, Reykjavik by Eileen Myles

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23 April 2021

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At a Waterfall, Reykjavik
Eileen Myles

I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I’m holding
out half
to you.

MARGINALIA

1.
Maybe it’s my faulty wiring, I say absently. No, you answer back.

2.
Maybe I want to hide away from you too, I whisper softly. Not allowed, you say, conversation over.

3.
Maybe I’m not good for anyone, I cry, almost desperate to be right. You take my face in your hands. I don’t know how this fits in the equation, you begin. But you belong to me.

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This poem appeared in School of Fish by Eileen Myles, published by Black Sparrow Press, 1997. (Available on: Amazon • Bookshop)

ABOUT EILEEN MYLES

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. They have published twenty volumes of poetry and fiction, including A “Working Life” (2023), evolution (2018), Afterglow: A Dog Memoir (2017), I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014 (2015), Inferno: A Poet’s Novel (2010), The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009), Sorry, Tree (2007), Skies (2001), Cool… (more)