Jetsam/Jettisoned by Sarah Hilton

August 30, 2023
Poem title: Jetsam/Jettisoned Poet name: Sarah Hilton Poem: Final heartbreak coming in full and this time I’ll turn to water starting from the belly you told me I was earnest like a prayer the kind you mouth before drowning the final breath barely brushing the surface every word a drug bringing you to god every love I’ve had was always strung up in the moon I’ve been living in craters the size of mountains pulse filling the silence heart beating like a fist I’ll take one last reminder before you let me go one last drag before I’m out with the tide the inside of your mouth filling my lungs before I’m finally pulled down the body knowing nothing memories dissolved to the flex of moonlight I want you to look at what’s left and keep it like a promise commit the sight of me to memory and hold it to your throat before you love again you will understand at last my body was tissue paper I was coming apart in the water of you End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Sarah Hilton Sarah Hilton (she/they) is a lesbian librarian, or... a lesbrarian! Her work has been featured in several print and online journals including Minola, Untethered, and CV2. She is the author of Saltwater Lacuna (Anstruther Press) and the digital chapbook homecoming (MODEL Press). They live in Toronto.