Jody Azzouni Poems

Originally appeared in Voices International
Volume 29, Number 4
My children strip the skin from their gifts,
pull the gaudy insides into the light,
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Hungry for control,
the dangfool god
gouges his own eye out
and drops it in the seedy well.
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When I sat watching that T.V. special the other night
after Mom told me I'd never been breastfed
I remembered again the baby you made me throw away
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I expected bats, fangs,
the usual openmouthed coffin.
Instead he woos me with poetry of a sort:
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