Player Piano

My face is a case studyin gravity. A face study. A grave.Effaced, I introduce myselfby name, a quippydelegate, ceci Susan,this lifelong stand-in.Named after my motheror rather, the pseudonym that hidher foreign origin. Shoushik.She’d take her breakfaston the balcony. Tehran1943. Feeding the antsand plants her onion-tisanemilk. My little mother.From her ovariescame I. An alloy.Reproduction reproducesinexactly, doesn’t […]