Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Galatea” by Sarah Hilton.

---

Galatea

By Sarah Hilton

After Ella Frears

I stand in the center

I hold the cold to my body

I hold a stone in my teeth

Fill my stomach with rubble

I wait for his hands

I wait for the chisel

He removes me stone by stone

The body opening at the throat

I am someone else spilling out

I am sand on the floor

I never run

I never run

I never run

---

Copyright © Emma Sloan

Previously published by in Opheliac (Black Lawrence Press, 2024).

Emma Sloan is a poet, short fiction author, and journalist with works published across 300+ international digital and print publications. She is the author of Foxglove (Chapter House, 2022) and Opheliac (The Black Lawrence Press, 2024).

---

Subscribe to Poetry Pause, or support Poetry Pause with a donation today!

---