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lifeinpoetry:

i burn myself; helpless, You act
like fire. This fact admits no fault:
You hurt me, and i seek it out.

— Vahni Capildeo, from “Four Presents with Petrarch,” Venus as a Bear

lifeinpoetry:

                   you are eating
         you are concealing your identities

                                                    this is like a riotous wilderness
                                                             but more like a persistent dread

— Ellen Welcker, from “[the girls speak to each other via the common tongue]: Feather or a Rock,” published in Poem-a-Day