An entire course of evolution

I saw this on tumblr and fell in love, so i thought maybe i should share this!

"An entire course of evolution, taught by a single survivor"
Meggie Royer

This is what I want the audience of this poem to know:
I was inside his bed for a long, long time
the way black bears hibernate in winter
and when I left I took all the people I could have been
before he forced my body onto his
with me.
Scientists doubt that Eve enjoyed
being reincarnated from Adam's rib
Scientists don't know how to explain
how birds can swallow wedding rings
and their flight is left unaffected.
I went home to my kitchen and baked
a dozen loaves of sourdough bread,
kneaded like it was needed, like kneading
could punch out the sorrow.
There was nothing I wanted but to swallow the rage
like mourning doves do with wedding rings
and return to living as normal
with the wings I had before.
There is something else I want the audience of this poem to know:
the bread burnt
I couldn't swallow the rage
I took a shower even though all the cop shows advise not to
because it destroys the evidence.
I think this string of heartbeats that pulses out of sync
and ties itself into a noose
every time I walk past his neighborhood
is evidence enough.

Yaki, thank you so much for sharing this. I currently can relate to this on a very deep level. This is beautiful.

I know right,

i almost lost my breath while reading

i wanna kiss myself for my ability to find good poems lmao

I also feel like this poem is soooo something Warsan Shire would write.

I've been reading little snippets from Christopher Poindexter on pinterest and have been totally in love with a lot of his work!

YES, I thought it was Warsan at first -- very Shire-Style!

Feel the need to see if i find more on this Meggie Rogers

maybe she has more gems