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  • Blason pour le Corps
  • Margo Berdeshevsky (bio)

Gentle, the sound of the rain

verlaine

Clitoris, belly,nape, taste bud,body-beloved-bully,how surprisingly you strut,how unexpectedly you age—How night rides the in and the out of youSeine of you, doe of youWho raped the silk in you? (Don’t answer,)blood’s hummingbirdunder your ribsBody-monster, ravenousnow the hound’s heartbeatoutrunning my greedBody, inside,thin ibis, flaming—mirror-bitch brayer do I love you, or not?Body my blessing             my birth day bleed.Body my deceiverBody my tauntMy strutter, my ogre, my mirror-bitch brayerWe’re as opened as we’ll ever be.Listen. Listen.Verlaine’s—new rain [End Page 16]

Margo Berdeshevsky

Margo Berdeshevsky often lives in Paris. Her poetry collections, Between Soul and Stone and But a Passage in Wilderness, were published by Sheep Meadow Press. Her collection of illustrated tales, Beautiful Soon Enough, received Fiction Collective Two’s Innovative Fiction Award (U of Alabama P). Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the & Now Anthology of the Best of Innovative Writing, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and two Pushcart special mention citations for works in Kenyon Review, agni, Pleiades, New Letters, and Poetry International. In Europe, her work has been seen in Poetry Review (uk), the Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, and Confluences Poétiques. A new poetry book, Square Black Key, is at the next gate, and a crossgenre novel, Vagrant, is forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press.

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