The Canonization of Margot Price

from The Hinterhaus by Gillian Grassie

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THE CANONIZATION OF MARGOT PRICE

That night I climbed the stairs
as though I were making a pilgrimage
as though when I had reached the top
I might become
illuminated and wise

but I saw her there
crouched at the kitchen table
lost to the world
in the ritual consumption

of spoon to bowl to maw
bone rubbing bone noisily
and milk dribbling off her jaw
until the box was gone
I saw, I saw

I saw her there
through the bathroom door
purging herself
of the shame that rotted in her gut
until she was no more
than a relic

I thought of the woman
who’d been made a saint
for lying on a plank in her basement
until she had starved to death
and of the one who cut off her breasts

I thought of lighting votives on her clavicle
like the ones burning in the catacombs of Paris
and praying for her resurrection
saying, “Come back to me, oh please,
come back to me.”

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from The Hinterhaus, released January 29, 2013

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Gillian Grassie Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gillian Grassie is an American singer-songwriter and harpist who splits her time between Philadelphia and Berlin.

"It’s rare to hear a young singer with such control and understated soulfulness, and even more rare to hear a harp provide such a deep percussive groove. I was immediately captivated by her sound.” - Grammy-winner Marc Cohn ... more

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