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Melissa Hill

My name is Melissa. I like haiku.

I like other things too. Like my awesome family, roller derby, arts & crafts, reading books & poetry, cooking & gardening, and divining the mysteries of the universe. That last part is what I do now full-time. In my previous lives I have sold crafts, waited tables, wrote obituaries, tended bar, and did some freelance mime.

I don’t mime anymore. It was a dark time.

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I had a baby but it ate me

I had a baby but it ate me
alive I think sweetly
at first heavy lidded
eyes under thick
lashes
sweetly kissing
my fingers it held
one by one until I noticed them
gone
and all around my home
fell down because I had no
hands to pick up and soon no
arms
the famished baby I had ate me
alive so I dropped the plates I had
to carry in my mouth the dustpan
empty rough drafts of poetry
piled in the corners while my
ankles and thighs filled those dimpled
cheeks it smiled sweetly so I
gave it my belly my lungs my neck
and my head was last (or was it
first?)
until I was no longer mother not
woman not human creature
but the mineral sustenance
that kept alive the baby I had.