I understand how a body becomes bread.
They set you on my chest, vernix-swirled
quiet and watchful as a new fawn, breath and need
threading us together, making us one.
Your soft cry leavens me, my chest rises
and splits. I have given myself up.
I will never be whole again.
Communion II
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and visual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in Poetry London, The Rialto, The Prairie Schooner, The Asian American Literary Review, Wasafiri, and others. Her first collection of poetry, Doe Songs (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) was awarded the OCM Prize in Caribbean Poetry.