“That constant interruption of the breath, that fever-greed of eyes and hands to digest your beauty whole.”
— A. E. Stallings, from Archaic Smile; “Eurydice Reveals Her Strength,”
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Divine Violence
they are telling her to go back home they are
telling her she belongs somewhere the rain cannot touch
& girl shaking her head & girl running for her life
& girl swimming for her life & girl sinking for her life
instead
— Topaz Winters, from “Undrowning,” poems for the sound of the sky before thunder