I Got Your Note, epilogue /
You Smell Like Home
I Got Your Note, epilogue
As a matter of fact, I was saving the damn plums
for breakfast.
Instead, I’ll gnaw on the bones of knowing
that you are well-fed and slowly
S L O W L Y healing.
One day, you might be well enough again
(or is it for the first time?)
and can swing by the market on your way
home for more.
I love you, so I’m hopeful (I think).
I’ll starve until then.
A Year, and several lifetimes later;
As matter of fact, the wild animal inside my stomach
which my mother calls my intuition
pawed at the lining of its acidic womb,
gave me aches and upsets until I ran.
I ran to the mountains, to the setting sun out west,
calling to you with a long last look over my shoulder,
saying ‘honey, i’ll be back for you’, wondering exactly why i was going
Or rather
why the creature deep inside me would not sleep.
Nor did she in the mountains, in that chilly western air,
pacing, ever pacing,
whipping the bile of my stomach into an eddy,
spinning ‘til its motion formed a gravity of its own,
Pulling us down.
But in its undertow, oh god, it pulled rosy lenses from my eyes
And futile hopes from my heart,
and tore and tattered the map back to you.
Through the stinging, swirling whirlpool, I see her;
Brave girl, stubborn creature,
Paw a spot in the lining, then set her teeth against it
and begin to gnaw
until a hole appears, and the acid drains.
In the falling final droplets, I forget your name.
You Smell Like Home
Darcy Scanlon Moulton
Charcoal
- Kate Zelkowitz
About the Creators
Kate Zelkowitz
Kate Zelkowitz is a senior at Suffolk University pursuing a B.S in Media and Film as a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Honors program. Previously, she studied at MCLA, where she served as the Vice President & Copy Editor for The Beacon, the Executive Producer of BWN, and hosted the weekly radio show "The Magpie" on WJJW, MCLA's college radio station. She is the Executive Producer and Exhibition Coordinator for Verse/Visual. She is also a dance teacher and choreographer, with over ten years of dance training in jazz, modern, and ballet. When not out on assignment or in her "editing cave," Kate loves spending time with her cats and watching baseball. She is also a former specialty espresso barista and makes a mean cup of coffee.
Darcy Scanlon Moulton
Darcy Scanlon Moulton is an artist working and living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Her work explores humanity’s isolation and spiritual disparity from nature in the modern world. She uses emotive contemporary landscapes and dark single subject realism of flora and fauna, drawing on their innate ghostliness with monochromatic and limited palettes. She hopes to inspire a yearning for connections to the natural world and a sense of human responsibility to our ecosystem that we so readily dismiss and manipulate to our own advantage. An active member of our community, she currently serves as a board member of both the Friends of the Ipswich Public Library and the Ipswich Cultural Council.