“MUTANT BLAZON My rapist’s eyes remind me of the sun. To look at them will mean that I go blind. His mouth beside my ear—they form a gun. Each breath: a bullet targeting my mind. My rapist’s eyes remind me of the sun. His throat: a fist to silence mine designed. His reason: a ventriloquist’s illusion. No tenor in the end could hearing find. My rapist’s eyes remind me of the sun— Too close for any vessel with a mind. Survive or get to die—that is the question. No longer have I any will to mind. My rapist’s eyes remind me of the sun— Not dead, not living, neither keen nor blind; A daily haunting; memory rebegun; Disaster in some future undivined. I write, rewrite, a “sonnet” about rape To hunt that voice I wish I could escape.” SonnetSexual ViolenceMetoo MovementJae In DoeMutant BlazonRape Sonnet Book:The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018: New Fiction, Poetry, and Category-Defying Literary Gems Source: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018: New Fiction, Poetry, and Category-Defying Literary Gems