the gods are eating grapes
i haven’t understood them
for the past two winters
my mouth is a frozen door
that eats when it can
and starves, and starves
if i worked my fingers raw
i’d never make the things
that they can make
kneeling is understanding
but it’s hard to kneel
in all this blood, my blood
—
‘les dieux’ was published in 2016 in the UEA Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology, Undertow.
