CT Scan
There is
nothing that can be hidden from this eye.
It means to
know me like the sun knows a leaf.
It
appraises me from north to south,
its iris
rotating with its sane hum,
its
hypnotic leer bypassing skin and bone
as it takes
an inventory of my organs.
Afterwards
I am handed my future in an envelope
with the
image that only God has been seeing:
the shadow
denser than my spleen
when I hold
it before the light.
- Louise
McKenna 2016
Louise
McKenna was
born in the UK and graduated from the University of Leeds with a joint honours
degree in English Literature and French. She currently resides in
Adelaide, where she works as a nurse and teacher of French. Her first
small poetry collection was published by Wakefield Press in 2010. Her
poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous Australian and overseas journals,
with recent work in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine. and Verity
La. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize.
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