"Wonderland II" by Beatriz Morales
by Duygu Kankaytsın, translated from Turkish by Buğra Giritlioğlu (with the help of Daniel Scher)
a daisy morning
as your skin swelled against mine
it was the face of soil
the eventual fracture of a mountain
feelings are defeated, the lancet rusty
entering the river, a fugitive
sharpening human scent, rinsed uterus
the pain of words in her mouth
love creates but a water sac
the sound of our ever-swirling river
a woman on her own shore, alone
as you step into the sea
