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Jude Marr

I Tell Myself that Mammals May Give Birth to Birds

​mouth me your fears: I will swallow them, ravenous        like a raven snatching
fright, I hoard                                        my belly ululates, filled with dread- worms
hardwired, I channel                  you / dread                (we are earth: we are flight)
 
whisper your antipathies       who do you gut? whose flesh gobbets do you label
before banishment?           if, stopping by snowy woods, you find a raven’s wing       
will you / I mourn?
 
leaf-drift, snow-drift, ash-heap: what lies beneath?                                 a creature
shot and bleeding: if I / you                  shovel drifts                          whose wounds
will we expose?
 
I lie                     beneath leaf-drift, snow-drift, ash-heap                          a creature
deep-sleeping: if I                                      struggle to rise                         might I free
our self?
 
I am earth: fear             my umbilical anchors me               untethered, I am flight.

Biography

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Jude Marr (they, their) teaches, and writes poetry, as protest.  Their chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds (Finishing Line), was published in 2017. Recent credits include Anti-Heroin Chic, Harbor Review, and One Magazine. Jude is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Follow them @JudeMarr1 and find more of their work at www.judemarr.com
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