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.

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