To Eden and Home Talia Loevy-Reyes ‘23

TO EDEN AND HOME

Talia Loevy-Reyes

Kee kidee key the chickens screamed when you were young kee kidee key you answered with the desperation of a child they never replied, speaking a language you did not know until you learned you spoke the tongue of humans cockadoodledoo, the human corrects it makes no di erence. you still don’t hear Sssssssss says the asp when he is hungry was ssssssss the sound that Eve heard in Eden that was the sin and weakness of humanity for Eve was only Adam’s rib and Adam was... everything? Ssssss the sound of judgement and sins and wrong that you learned when you sat in dank rooms listening always listening kee kidee key you never shout you take eggs like snakes the way a child never could you eat them like the hungry Eden asp, a snake you never were thy kingdom comes, will you never be ful lled? Never pray, never reach a holy land you can’t believe a stomach full of eggs and children and your own ock bobbling and singing kee kidee key like you taught them waiting in Eden like you instructed picking apples the way they saw you do never hopeless with hope the size of ightless wings