Torn from the ashes we have
old women come to remind us that skinny looks good in dresses but not on
faces. Die with a naked mole rat visage or die of diabetes with a #7 double.
In junior high I ate cheese until grease dripped with my tears down my chins.
Retirement will hide the animalistic tendencies that made me the beast, the
homes of gluttony. I am vegan because I am animalistic
Need is the mother hunched over garbage crying, “never eat your feelings,”
Bulimia burned so I’m eating enough one day to not eat the next. A CD of
meditation because I didn’t eat for 3 days after my first love abandonment
to cope except for 3 shining cherry tomatoes when my friends were watching. But
forget my mother said I would eat her out of house and home, when the
Botox stilled, he dumped me again and my teeth bled digesting the metallic fridge.
Freshly freezer burn my stomach with processed love like they said I would
Formed my garden given life to love, never
Molly McGrane is an author, artist, and student at Boston College. Her poetry chapbook, Falling in Hate, is available through Bottlecap press. Her work has also been published by The Torrey House Press, The River, Snapdragon Journal, Pidgeonholes Magazine, TED.com, and more. You can learn more about Molly on her website, Mollyrosemcgrane.com, or on her Instagram, @crunzo.
“Cravings” is the 12th sonnet of a heroic sonnet crown and was originally published in its entirety in the chapbook Falling in Hate. The first five sonnets in this collection are available through The Showbear Family Circus.
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