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Featured Poem • April 2018 • Mythic Delirium Books

Featured Poem • April 2018

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Virginia M. Mohlere

 
 

Oh, choose 
                (the heart says to the heart) 
but the heart cries 
                no. 
The heart cries no. 
  
Choose  
                (says the heart) 
pick the altar 
on which to burn your thighbones. 
  
The heart’s choice is rotten. 
Every choice is rotten. 
Every choice hatches  
                      from an egg with a war-colored shell. 
  
Choose, heart. 
  
Knowing 
that to arrive at choice’s island 
brings the fleet of refused options 
floating in on the tide 
to rage at your walls,  
to cry out 
to the gods 
                      to whom you showed your back. 
  
And let me tell you, heart: 
gods always stick together. 
  
You ask a god to choose 
and their choice 
is never you. 
  
Oh, heart. 
You are the city and the ships, 
on fire and aground, 
watching the gods approach the horizon. 
  
The war is just about to start.

 

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Virginia M. Mohlere owns too many fountain pens and heckles her members of Congress on Twitter. She fills her notebooks with scratch paper, which is totally confusing when she uses old drafts of her own work. She talks to trees. Sometimes they answer. Her work has been seen in Cicada, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, and Through the Gate, among other publications.

 

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