Wild Pear Tree By Kaveh Akbar

it’s been January for months in both directions frost over grass like pale fungus like mothdust the branches of the pear tree are pickling in ice white as the long white line running from me to the smooth whales frozen in chunks of ocean from their vast bobbing to the blackwhite stars flowering into heaven the hungry cat gnaws on a sliver of mirror and I have been chewing out my stitches wondering which warm names we should try singing wild thyme cowslip blacksnake all the days in a year line up at the door and I deflect each saying no you will not be needed one by one they skulk off into the cold the cat hates this place more than he loves me he cannot remember the spring when I fed him warm duck fat daily nor the kitchen vase filled with musky blue roses nor the pear tree which was so eager to toss its fruit so sweet it made us sleepy I stacked the pears on the mantle until I ran out of room and began filling them into the bathtub one evening I slid in as if into a mound of jewels now ghost finches leave footprints on our snowy windowsills the cat paces through the night listening for their chirps our memories have frosted over ages ago we guzzled all the rosewater in the vase still we check for it
nightly I have forgotten even the easy prayer I was supposed to use in emergencies something something I was not born here I was not born here I was not

wild pear tree by Kaveh Akbar

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