when we first met

you called me / monstrous

onion-shine / a puffy

cat’s eye / too concentric

for origami magic

i blamed my mum / she drew

me out / with a compass

& my dad / he fed me

pig’s milk / until i was six

i began to dream / of a straight-

edge / squaring the circle

& squashing heaven / forever

i promised myself / i’d skip

one meal / for each digit of pi

after a fracture / of days

my spine / doubled its axis

my shoulder blades / moved

tangent to your face / my stretch

marks / bore your initials

but you’d still / find a snowflake

more beautiful