Ode to Necrophilia, Mexico City, 1962 (Leonora Carrington), by Kati Horna (Mexico, b. Hungary) 1962
All Our Grieving Mothers In this room, a flame casts its veiled shadow. A mother, barefoot by the unmade bed, clutches herself through silken shawl and lace, graceful as an alabaster death mask. Her heart, a stricken bird trembling between life and mortality – the sputtering engine of language, of memory. Through the window, the trees are not trees but silence itself, shrouded in the stinging abstraction of day: a brightness so full it burns the eye. Tom Velho Tom Velho is a poet and teacher from London. By day he teaches Modern Languages and Literature. He has had work in Red Ogre Review, Overheard, and The Delinquent. Twitter: @velho_tom
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