We hike through logging territory. The chainsaw still warm,
\na little body on my back.<\/p>\n
I walk so long my breasts shrink up
\nuntil they are my mother\u2019s breasts. Small, empty.<\/p>\n
The fumes make it impossible to eat,
\nlittle flies all sucking on you all the time.<\/p>\n
The saw does not cut clean. Each tooth offset, meant to hack apart,
\nspit back up. Designed for the removal of material.<\/p>\n
Cherries wet with gasoline, the beaches made of sawdust.
\nJellied frog eggs drying up in mud puddles, ants carbonating the logs.<\/p>\n
I use my EBT card to buy string cheese. I sharpen the chain
\nas my crew cleans the soles of my boots with pinecones.
\nThey are laughing calling me mountain gazelle, kevlar princess.
\nChainsaw Queen of the Almost Apocalypse.<\/p>\n
This is not a dream. It is hard work.
\nHard enough to lose yourself in it.<\/p>\n
There is sawdust everywhere. 30 degrees on the cutting teeth.<\/p>\n
The land is torn up, crusted over. Not a forest but what comes after.
\nThere is no piecing back together, only the gaping wound.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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