Tumors, Tumors, Tumors
Fentanyl, too, executes the first role of poetry: Things become
other things: father, a sailboat. bed– a white sea,
unclasped.
Splendid patch, I was made to beg the nurse to beg
the doctor for you. I was made to welcome arrows
into my bowels.
So that arrow becomes sun-ray. Then magic, then
my grandmother’s hand.
Jade Aurélie Rivers is a writer and intuitive reader living between Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. Her writing explores the intersections of queer identity, chronic illness, and disability, while challenging traditions about what is “sacred.” She writes in English and Italian and is heavily influenced by experimental Italian poets of the 20th century.
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