Gabriella Torres

Cake

is a sweet boy. Then Cake
is not so sweet. He is made of flies
and the wings of birds. It is a period
of water, of water-birds and retreat.

On the beach where Cake walks
he finds an outline of a fish in the sand.
Now a carcass: bones and seaweed hair.
Cake laughs at the decay and runs his fingers
through it. Cake runs along side the water.
He has already forgotten the memory of the fish.

Cake does not remember a time when there was
a mother. He only remembers her stinking on
the rocks. A blanket in the cave.

Cake does not recognize he is an animal.
Hair and warm-blooded. Claws and warm-
blooded. Tearing and teeth.

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