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state change

                                                            for C.

this for which I lavishly
ravished
 
meaning to decimate or make love to
 
I will always stop to be a beacon
to pick up a coin
to tell my brothers
            do not walk like snakes
 
the story is not mine to tell
filled with pressed lilacs
sow the field with teeth they
murdered me on the way to the hill they
 
sang my praises
meanwhile the story
 
is not mine to tell
 
but when I don’t occupy my mind
my mind is occupied
Picture
Kazumasa Ogawa. Wisteria Chinensis, 1896. Hand-colored collotype. J. Paul Getty Museum.

Montreux Rotholtz is the author of Unmark (Burnside Review Press, 2017), which was selected by Mary Szybist as the winner of the Burnside Review Press Book Award. Her poems appear in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Prelude, jubilat, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle.
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