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    Witch Doctrine: poems
    Witch Doctrine: poems
    Witch Doctrine: poems
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    Witch Doctrine: poems

    By Annah Browning

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    Annah Browning's poetry collection Witch Doctrine is a gothic instruction manual for how to exist in a heartbreaking world. Through a series of spell poems and a cast of haunting personas—including a sentient house, a mentoring witch, and a housekeeping ghost—Browning leads the reader in dark and slyly humorous mediations on mortality, loss, feminist power, and survival: “you'll take / another branch for the fire / and you will make it.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Akron Press
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781629221663
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    Witch Doctrine - Annah Browning

    Party

    I.

    Spell for a Lover

    My addle-winged darling.

    Stir-fried flyer. Come on

    down, and grease this

    pan. Fat of your body

    glowing in the sun. Amber

    jelly and my hair sucked

    into your mouth,

    in the wind. Trace the sign

    of the cross on the back

    of my hand again, begging it

    to find you, find you. A lantern

    is just a piece of contained fire,

    something that wants to eat

    you alive. Follow me, your marsh

    -light, your baby dying

    in the crowning, the gold-headed

    not-ever-servant undressing

    in the field, stepping out of her

    clothes into the night. Toad-bride

    pissing on your hand.

    Witch in Winter

    Come, let the ice file in. Come,

    let the spindly roosters

    scratch their homes in me.

    I am always watching.

    The shadow of the

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