Oct. 17. 2022
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Avez vous déjà vu un rossignol chanter ?
for Susan Noel
By Gaia Thomas
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Avez vous déjà vu un rossignol chanter ?
for Susan Noel
By Gaia Thomas
To create a museum of pain. A consensus of freezing and
undoing. Sirens circle the streets below. To follow that song
of the body through the dark for long hours. While falling
asleep, I hear a knock in the closet. Strike the echo, create a
string. A dance can remember another dance. I was walking
through the doors of animal forms. Some mercy named me
in the depths. With push alone enough to comfort.
Gaia Thomas
Gaia Thomas (she/her) is a disabled poet living in Alameda, CA. She has presented on crip poetics at UPenn and Michigan State University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and will be featured in the upcoming sequel to Beauty is a Verb. Her manuscript, Serotine, was a finalist for the Carolyn Bush Award.
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