VOLUME 1: ISSUE 4
FALL 2022

Poetry

‘Tachycardia,’ ‘Tachycardia: Reprise’,’ A Woman’, ‘Ritual in Plague Time’, ‘The Dreaming Woman/The Daughter’

Tachycardia

Tachycardia all day yesterday

faint 8 a.m.

by evening a fast thud-thud

insistent as if someone is trying

to tell me something

in a language I don’t know

the sign language

of a being

that expresses itself in beats

and is becoming impatient

with my ignorance

we used to understand each other

perfectly

or so I thought

I thought we were like sisters

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