Breast Dream

Alicia Ostriker 781 Breast Dream I was showing my sister something about my breasts when glancing down suddenly I saw that I had only one and that the other lay flat,low, wrinkled, a rotted prune it's because I've been so long in the water I explained in panic and haste In the dream it was my right breast that was gone and my left one that remained, a nasty thing, stained brown as if a mug of coffee had been flung at it I looked at it as if under water she ... she ... you, you refused to look Alzheimer's My friend is being erased before my eyes. Alert and relaxed if I don't look at the fingers of her right hand digging into her left palm she sits prettily across the table the shells the bowl of daffodils the guacamole and corn chips and lemonade mostly mute while her partner chats to camouflage the fullness of her ever-expanding emptiness although at pauses in the conversation she smiles pleasantly and says Absolutely

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