This is the world we wanted.
\nAll who would have seen us dead
\nare dead. I hear the witch’s cry
\nbreak in the moonlight through a sheet
\nof sugar: God rewards.
\nHer tongue shrivels into gas\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Now far from women’s arms
\nand memory women, in our father’s hut
\nwe sleep, are never hungry.
\nWhy do I not forget?
\nMy father bars the door, bars harm
\nfrom this house, and it is years.<\/p>\n
No one remembers. Even you, my brother,
\nsummer afternoons you look at me though
\nyou meant to leave,
\nas though it never happened.
\nBut I killed for you. I see armed firs,
\nthe spires of that gleaming kiln come back, come back\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Nights I turn to you to hold me
\nbut you are not there.
\nAm I alone? Spies
\nhiss in the stillness, Hansel,
\nwe are there still and it is real, real,
\nthat black forest and the fire in earnest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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