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'Suffice' by poet Dana DeFranco

Poet Dana DeFranco
Dana DeFranco
Poet Dana DeFranco

Poet Dana DeFranco reads her poem "Suffice."

Suffice
(The Bedroom: thread count)

the unfolding
stumbles
legs shuffle,
tightness / tucked /
tightly sucked
/in/so/that/ toes
woe &

all she can think of
is the door

wings x’s four
I have
a dragonfly
inside my heart,
multiplied in kisses
gilded to
collisions
stacked in brittle
mouths and girdles -
a gait that lingers

on the inside of my teeth