Anorexic Analysis

Author: poem of Eavan Boland Type: poem Views: 61

Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.

Yes I am torching
ber curves and paps and wiles.
They scorch in my self denials.

How she meshed my head
in the half-truths
of her fevers

till I renounced
milk and honey
and the taste of lunch.

I vomited
her hungers.
Now the bitch is burning.

I am starved and curveless.
I am skin and bone.
She has learned her lesson.

Thin as a rib
I turn in sleep.
My dreams probe

a claustrophobia
a sensuous enclosure.
How warm it was and wide

once by a warm drum,
once by the song of his breath
and in his sleeping side.

Only a little more,
only a few more days
sinless, foodless,

I will slip
back into him again
as if I had never been away.

Caged so
I will grow
angular and holy

past pain,
keeping his heart
such company

as will make me forget
in a small space
the fall

into forked dark,
into python needs
heaving to hips and breasts
and lips and heat
and sweat and fat and greed.

Submitted by Jenna Morris

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The poem starts out with her body talking about it mind. How its mind says no food and how the body reacts to it angry with it saying "now the bitch is burning"
At the end it speeks about "his breath" and "slip back into 'him' again". I don't understand necessarily who 'he' is. He could be death, gluttony, etc. I personally think that 'he' is death, and the poem ends with her dead.

| Posted on 2009-10-22 | by a guest

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