- “somebody or other pretended a revelation”
He tells her she is a star with dark hair like ‘never before’ like ‘only’
& yes sometimes under a dégradé dogwood late spring an indigo slithers away but still when he tells her Name the wings of many birds & she does so cruelly he wants her like a blade against the tongue
like swallowing a stone [End Page 117]
Abigail Lee holds an mfa in poetry writing from unc —Greensboro, and she is currently pursuing a doctorate in English Literature at UNC—Chapel Hill. Her work has or will appear in CALYX, Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, the Evansville Review, and other publications.