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Poetry Month 2016: Xochiquetzal Candelaria
Sappho Fragments—a line, sometimes eight, one scrap found stuffed in the mouth of a mummified cat. Let’s say we know this as we know the cat once roamed light-footed through a garden of hyacinth and violets, inking between the legs of guests, sheer linen— dressed dancers, lute players. Everyone drunk. In one jump the cat lands on a whitewashed wall between shards of broken glass on a cliff giving way to the sea.Read More