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Poetry of Issue 9: Edith Sitwell Stumbles

Edith Sitwell Stumbles upon Clumps of Sundew

Still the dew—

translucent as raindrops

sliding down the furry red frills,

the sleek green cheeks

of leaves—will fall

like the rain.

Dark as the bog

from which it came, black

as the moss on a starless night,

soon the moon

will falter

in its course.  Soon, the sun

will bleed at the feet

of starving men, and then

Beelzebub

. . . will know them.

by Deborah H. Doolittle

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