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Cook Submits Her Requisition

I require.

I require my son’s

life, no, a dozen

of them so eleven

can be smashed

in the carton

and still I will

have him. My son.

And butter. I require

butter. I will make

a sweet cake with dark

flour. I require the hard

soap smell of his cheek

as I require salt

for soup. Let me order

ten thousand of him,

then, if you kill

him again and again

my shelves will still

be filled with his future.

As for the others,

I will cut sweet butter

into their dark hours.

 

Laura Budofsky Wisniewski is the author of Sanctuary, Vermont (Orison Books, 2022) which won the 2020 Orison Poetry Prize, the 2022 NEPC Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and the Foreword INDIES Bronze Award. She is author of the chapbook, How to Prepare Bear (Redbird Chapbooks). She was winner of Ruminate Magazine’s 2020 Janet B. Mccabe Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry International Prize, and the 2014 Passager Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Narrative Magazine, The Missouri Review, On the Seawall, Image, and other journals.



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