Outbreaking

by Claire Hero | Oct 23, 2013 | Poetry | 0

OUTBREAKING from
fancy,
a white root:

it taps
the fruiting thing,

the feeding,
the cleaving thing—

When the invasion came,
I opened,
I gave it refuge.

Photo By: Omar Parada

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Claire Hero

Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel and of three chapbooks: afterpastures, Cabinet, and most recently, Dollyland (Tarpaulin Sky 2012). Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Handsome, Magpie [UK], and elsewhere. Currently she lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at SUNY-New Paltz.

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