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POETRY

Wildness and Thorns

by Lois Marie Harrod

​Wildness and thorns
fabricate the same field.

Sometimes wildness
tenders its fruit.

And sometimes thorns
deprecate their stilettos.

You must decide
what to risk

for the sweet pain
sharping the tongue,

learn to separate the bush 
from the unbearable.

You must forget
love sometimes quicks 

its dull text
on a sharp spine.

Lois Marie Harrod’s 16th and most recent collection Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016, and Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. She is continually published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. Visit her online work at www.loismarieharrod.org

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