glittering glittering athena
i honor your maternal sinews
every corpse in its place
undreamt melancholy unhealed
i will not run from battle
the deal she is mine
i save her
i am a rhinoceros
i am a buffalo
i am a bear i am
a godly bear the world looks at me
i allow how vicious
devotion among jackals that red
gold hunger.
Leia Penina Wilson currently lives in the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada. After an appropriate amount of tears she hopes to earn her PhD in poetry. When she’s not reading YA fiction, she plays Magic the Gathering. Her first book of poems, i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown), is published by Red Hen Press.
My Sweet Friend Falls to Death’s Miasma