"I have prepared my sister's tongue, / scrubbed and skinned it..." (Lines 1 and 2)
I'm sensing a rather odd theme with these poems: insanity. Total and utter insanity. This speaker is talking about eating her (let's assume it's a her for the time being) sister and brother's body parts! And it isn't with a sense of revenge or destruction. (But the images do tend to lean in the masochistic direction.) The speaker is practically reciting her plans for the evening meal. She even goes so far as to contemplate what she will do with the next tongue she cultivates from her sister. I am, to say the least, appalled and speechless. However, I have to finish this blog, so I must summon a few more words.
I found the images of her brother's heart rather interesting because they seem to symbolize his inability to love more than two people (and he struggles with two!) at the same time. I wonder if the sister who's tongue is being cut out is the one out of the two who gets the most affection while the speaker gets what is left of her brother's devotion. Hmm. I shall ponder this.
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