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The hem of this dress is a secret until someone sleeps beside it— doesn't touch. A secret like the old songs the earth- worms recall in their trudging. Tireless making and remaking the soil, the undergarments, the womb. Tireless the untying of knots, belly of white pearls, a kind of remembering. As if the land knew the answer. As if there was a question. When I walked my feet left red behind me—bloodletting a root system, ankles more like stems to bloom from— branch-like, grasping. Singing in the rubied dark. Singing.
Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in central Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in époque press, FEED, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ogma Magazine, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from the University of Maine Farmington and her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press.
