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Bathing by Allison Seay

Bathing
Allison Seay

I have been alone with the thing itself.
The depression. The defective heart. God.

Inside my mind it is dawn. A wolf appears with a bird
in its mouth. Blue feathers, my fate, the beautiful white throat.

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To See The Queen by Allison Seay

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This poem appeared in To See The Queen by Allison Seay by Allison Seay, published by Persea Books, 2013. (Available direct from Persea Books • Also on: Amazon • Bookshop)

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“Winner of the 2012 Lexi Rudnistky First Book Prize in Poetry

In her debut collection, Allison Seay portrays a world fraught with the powers of its own harrowing imagination—a world intermittently real and imaginary, with unforgettable characters conjured subliminally as a young woman’s saviors from a deathly sadness. Achingly personal, To See the Queen describes one woman’s psychological wilderness, then blesses us with the story of its population, regrowth, and ultimate transcendence.” (Source)

ABOUT ALLISON SEAY
Allison Seay was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1980. She earned a BA in English at Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 2002 and an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2005. Her honors include publication in such journals as Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, Meridian, Arts and Academe, and Pleiades. Her first book manuscript is under consideration and was a semi-finalist for Tupelo

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