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Michelle Detorie


 


 


UNITED STATES OF GRIEF


Before there are no sanctuaries. Without birds

Flying through, the soul is open territory

For wounding. We scraped the lakes dry

Milking salt for our tears, fasting our hand

To plates to placate the glacial creatures

Living in papers, their occult markings making

Promises they never keep. We build

A new home with yesteryear singing in our ears

While these are old fevers burn in the roads and rivers.

What's built on thieving. If you want to live, sign

This petition. If you want to love, come on.









          







 

MICHELLE DETORIE  lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she edits Hex Presse and is the Director of the Communication Lab at Santa Barbara City College. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). In 2007, Michelle was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for her public art project, The Poetry Booth. AFTER-CAVE (Ahsahta Press) is her first full-length collection.



 
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