Cindy Savett is the author of Child in the Road (Parlor Press, 2007) and Rachel: In the Temporary Mist of Prayer (Big Game Books, 2007). Her poems have appeared in LIT, Dusie, Little Red Leaves, Moira, Word For/Word, No Tell Motel and other journals. She lives with her family in the Philadelphia area, where she teaches poetry workshops to psychiatric inpatients at several hospitals.
in the story of my eyes
1.
in my house there are no beams
in my house
there is no breath
in my house I find the oven
the knotted air
the dried hands
in my house I have no ribs no palms no weight of blood
only walls folding their corners
into tears