Banjo as a dark girl,
undiminished beryl.Many flood-plains.Life-flame—elegantturn—considerationof a still kind. Colorup on her haunches.A hubbub rememberingwhen blood cannot, lovebeing more than the onlyminiature. Each nightfallchooses, and is injured.Caribe women know this.Sun up until moon-crest,they kneel but their tonguesare ever-feral and unchecked.
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Copyright © 2019 by Lynne Thompson
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Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar, Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and Fretwork, selected by Jane Hirshfield for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize and published in 2019. Thompson was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles and Honorable/Special Mention for the Cave Canem Chapbook Prize. Her recent work is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Nelle, and Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
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Warrensburg, Missouri
University of Central Missouri
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