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David Cazden
David Cazden is editor of Miller’s Pond, which begins its 2005 reading period on May 1. His collection The Joy of Cooking School is available through H H Press, and his collection Moving Picture is due out from Word Press in July.
“Melanoma” appeared in Chiron Review, which I regret to discover is going out of business with the Winter 2005 issue.
Melanoma
Every month the doctors check
each stretch of her,
down to the paper ribbons
wound between the toes–
But I see only skin
the color of mocha,
freckles of cinnamon and clove.
As auburn hair falls upon the table
she tells me how they watch
the neck, the elbows, the delta
of the back
where a cool rain pours
and I ask
can I see the scar
so she pulls a sleeve away
from the center of her arm
revealing seared streaked skin
the color of pork
left on the barbeque.
This is the opposite
of what a kiss might do,
an unravelling of flesh,
the threads tied down.
She stares at me through glasses
thick as bowls of water.
At twenty five she already talks
beyond the afternoon. And after
our awkward conversation
I return to editing her poem,
erasing a few lines,
as if my hands could change
a story not my own.
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1. Kristiws Kinista&hellip replies at 17th July 2005, 7:27 pm :
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