c.
Bursk
GOOD AS NEW
The doctors have been instructed to be as professional
as light-
to look at my body with light's curiosity.
How odd we seem to all that doesn't love us,
how easily light performs on us.
Hands are laid on me. Next.
Next.-light
understands this language.
I am already muttering
as if each word were too heavy.
I open my mouth
and it is full of smoke.
Before they have even warmed their hands,
crowded around me like a small fire
I am ashes
they are stoking.
