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Melissa Severin

Melissa Severin lives in Chicago and works in search engine marketing. Her poems have appeared in MoonLit, The Alembic, and The Cultural Society. Brute Fact, her forthcoming chapbook, will be out in February from Dancing Girl Press.

After Your Colony Collapses

21 October 2007
Vol. 7, No. 3
poetry, ghazal

Auguries interpreted incorrectly caused a fever.

Dry heat leathers skin, embeds bread in bones that know there's more.

Gift the thunderegg, teethe on junipers, drive to the white dove.

One one-thousand, two…, lightning and strike unwed—wait there's more.