We Slept Here
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Sierra DeMulder
Sierra DeMulder is the author of four other collections of poetry (The Bones Below, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, We Slept Here, Today Means Amen) and the co-host of the relationship advice podcast Just Break Up. She lives in Albany, NY with her wife and daughter.
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Reviews for We Slept Here
43 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow. Just wow. Thank you Sierra, for writing this beauty.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully heartbreaking. Spoke to my soul. I loved every single poem.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quick read but very meaningful. The poetry resonates a lot about the poet's past and in the end it all summed up to forgiving oneself.
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We Slept Here - Sierra DeMulder
Rain"
AND IF I AM TO FORGIVE YOU
Who am I
if I am not
the aftertaste
of abuse?
The offspring
of your temper
and your fat
white pills?
I don’t know
what will be left
of me if I dump
the curdled milk
down the drain.
Sometimes I just
like to look at it,
open the fridge
and let the cold
sharpen my skin.
Be someone
who bought
milk once.
A poet told me
to write about
you. Write it
out, honey.
As if you were
a fever or
a horse to break.
As if you don’t
already show up,
uninvited,
unbeckoned,
into every poem.
Your hand
guides my wrist
as I write this,
even now.
MY SISTER REMEMBERS
the sharp, feral way our father spoke
to the maker of his children.
How his whole face became a mouth.
How he hissed and spat and
huffed like a hell engine. How our
mother became more chair
than voice, her whole body an opening.
An echo chamber. How he
said words we did not know but knew
were bad and would repeat
like gaudy hyenas to our cousins.
How we too became animals.
How she went limp as a snipped lily,
a wax doll going soft next to
the stove. It is not that my father yelled
and it is not that my mother
received his yelling. It is that we
remember them like this,