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  • Victims in Vogue
  • Elizabeth Bailie (bio)

Donning white robes of slender flesh,They saunter the catwalk,Like a Treblinka corridorBrazen in their stolen innocence.

Modeling Giacommetti's latest line,These coquettes of contagionKneel self-scourgedBefore their own shrines.

Public penitents,Slim tokens of transfiguration,They withdraw, unforgiven,In ceremonial hunger.

Elizabeth Bailie

Elizabeth Bailie is a poet, writer, and lay contemplative who lives in the hills of central Massachusetts just up the road from St. Joseph's Trappist Monastery, her spiritual home.

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