Half-Formed Girl Narrative

by [sarah] Cavar
^{(After Eimear McBride (2013), A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing)}

Daphne by Cheryl Ceaser

Take me backwards into that
the dark world of myself.

Sidledare remove me from the light-beings
Sidlequick disapprehend the body 

From their quick encurdled
Thumbs.  Together a dreaming

a world without milk, bones in
venting chalices of seismic range. 

Someplace where the babies
elsewhere got the lie

-down dead ditch dirt 
wormfood wrinklestrain bodyminds

Tossed into their weathering yummy
language     angels eat

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_{[sarah] Cavar is a PhD candidate and transMad writer-about-town. Their debut novel, Failure to Comply, is forthcoming with featherproof books (2024). Cavar is editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place, and has had work published in The Offing, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and elsewhere. More at www.cavar.club, @cavar on BlueSky, and @cavarsarah on twitter.}

^{Cheryl Caesar is a writer, teacher of writing and visual artist living in Lansing. She is an associate professor at Michigan State University, and does research and advocacy for culturally-responsive pedagogy.  Cheryl’s chapbook of protest poetry Flatman is available from Amazon, and some of her Michigan poems, watercolors and charcoal sketches appear in Words Across the Water, volumes 1 and 2, a collaboration between the Lansing and Chicago poetry clubs.}