Kathleen Hellen's latest poetry collection is The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin. She lives in Baltimore.
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The Vast
01-31-2022
A poem.
Illustration by Ric Carrasquillo
the vast
and all its definitions had dumbfounded. I bit the hand
that fed imagination, took
for pestilence, the flies. For end-of-world, the gully washers.
I shook in handfuls
petals fetched from
doubt