Ginger Ko
Motherlover
“Prayer for What’s Close”
Let me stay here in the West please God
Let me live on in shabby comfort
Let me find the tinned tomatoes aisle without wandering
Let me feel safe enough to have children somedayI’ll make every day worthy and won’t be unpleasant
I’ll remember not to dissolve into a malcontent
I’ll breathe and other cleansing things
I’ll walk in the mornings and write affirmations
It just to happens that when I was reading these lines, the background music featured another prayer from Madonna’s “Justify My Love”
Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love (my love)
Hoping, praying
For you to justify my love
Ko’s bargaining receives a note of sauciness from a more piquant offering earlier in the volume, from the opening sequence “Gaslight”
Things unremembered can be made unreal
A soft black eye perfectly round
Flavory fucking that fills the room
With a sodden smell
The nurture-danger flavours seep into the cover art by Sofi Thanhauser. Chopsticks resting on the edges of a bowl? Mouth and teeth devouring a title!
And so for day 2587
12.01.2014