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The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments
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Kristina Marie Darling15 ratings, 4.07 average rating, 4 reviews
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“A cold moon rises over glittering cages & you fasten
the lock on each silver door. The sparrows are
nesting & I begin to count the buttons on your black
wool coat. My eyes adrift along its luminous satin
inlay. Now the night has been opened like a box of
exotic blue canaries & I'm brushing feathers from my
long dark sleeves. You smile as the song rises,
hesitant, in my cool white throat—
—Kristina Marie Darling, “Aviary,” The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments. (Gold Wake Press February 4, 2012)”
― The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments
the lock on each silver door. The sparrows are
nesting & I begin to count the buttons on your black
wool coat. My eyes adrift along its luminous satin
inlay. Now the night has been opened like a box of
exotic blue canaries & I'm brushing feathers from my
long dark sleeves. You smile as the song rises,
hesitant, in my cool white throat—
—Kristina Marie Darling, “Aviary,” The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments. (Gold Wake Press February 4, 2012)”
― The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments
