#20

it can only be an instinct Half-animal that keeps me Inside the
house of your Body something as Yet un-named in its
urgency that Holds me in the Pulse of your skin (a pulse
deeper, it Seems, than my own) For it is here I have Chosen
to ride out Storm and ruin To live in these rooms as if this
would always be Enough it is Such an odd Song of being

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Ann Pedone graduated from Bard College with a degree in English and has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened, and the forthcoming chapbook perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho. Her work has recently appeared in Riggwelter, Ethel Zine, Main Street Rag, Poet head, The Wax Paper, The Phare, West Trade Review, The Open Page Literary Journal, and Slipstream, among others.