Desiree C. Bailey
Dec 15, 2021
2 minutes
Yale University Press
(Yale Younger Poets Prize)
my goddess is
the wave unsheathing strung through my name
the conch’s contralto
—from “Chant for the Waters and Dirt and Blade (Slight Return)”
HOW IT BEGAN: came out of the water: the Caribbean Sea that was a large part
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