Poem: ‘Ghazal of the Fiftieth Danaid’
A.E. Stallings, 9 September 2021
Sisters, infernal virgins, would you kill again,Knowing the endless sieves you would refill again?
Night is where the day’s mistakes repeat,I swallow the bitter crumb, the sleeping pill again.
Isn’t the womb the sieve, the moon the springFrom which blood’s phases rise, and fill, and spill again?
I carried thrice, bore twice, and once I grievedAnd shouldered my vessel up the...