Poetry Magazine - May 2011 Quotes

“The form was sinking away.

The skin loosened, becoming other,
shedding the mask that hides,

but must also reveal a creature.
Off amid cliffs and hills

some unfleshed force roamed free.
In the wind, I felt

the half-life I watched watch me.
Elk, I said, I see.

you abandon this life, this earth–

I stood for a time with the bones.”
― Tess Taylor, Poetry Magazine - May 2011