She moves in a circle of victims;
they make her eat her heart in public.
She has been bled so many times
her blood has lost its color.
— Lisel Mueller, from “The Fall of the Muse,” Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
September 24th, 201612:26 pm
She moves in a circle of victims; they make her eat her heart in public. She has been bled so many times her blood has lost its color. — Lisel Mueller, from “The Fall of the Muse,” Alive Together: New and Selected Poems 12:28 pm
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