"Cough Medicine" by Elizabeth Alexander

[voleuse]

Cough Medicineby Elizabeth Alexander

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[geosh]

I LOVE THIS! awesome! where'd you find it?

[voleuse]

Originally I found it in an anthology, but I don't remember the name. It can also be found in her collection, Body of Life.

[moireach]

Oh man, wtg Elizabeth Alexander.

I cannot dream of all I'm reading: bony fingers
that snap off and turn to candy, children who slip

down the bathtub drain, who are frozen in place forever.

So that's Mary Poppins, Stuart Little and.... I want to say maybe the Green Knowe books, but that's not that mainstream?

[missparker]

Peter Pan? She says 5 years too late.