Hope Wabuke is a Ugandan-American poet, essayist, writer, and assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She's a contributing editor for The Root and has been published in many magazines and journals.
Heart
by Hope Wabuke
This your heart I do spoon—
a dull-edged, rusted almost circle of silver—
from within your rib cage
and suck the marrow out hard
raw, my teeth and lips dripped red
by this four chambered organ still pumping
inside the press of my fingers
bite by bite leeching its hard won
labors to fuel my parasite life until
nothing left but your rhythm still live
still moving inside me, I understand
how long after mine own bones become
ashes, become dust. Will rise
the sounding of this
most ancient, terrible thing.
Read, listen, share, create, and be on watch.
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