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Executioner

By Ahja Fox
Fall 2019 | Poetry

in the middle of this field you cannot dream

only sit and stare beyond the fence barely

a girl and barely from heaven

the sandpit swirls slow like

a mother’s arm checking the temperature

of a bath

but you were never a baby born

never waxed and threaded in the fit of a

women's clothes

the sun’s dry heat is a switch without leaves

(its flaying)

                         the only spoil you know

Ahja Fox can be found around Denver, Colorado reading at various events, cheering on her community, or co-hosting Art of Storytelling. She is an assistant poetry editor for Copper Nickel and Homology Lit and publishes in online and print journals like Five:2:One, LEVELER, Driftwood Press, Rigorous, Okay Donkey, The Perch (Yale), and more. She has also been included in the 2018 Punch Drunk Anthology, YANYR Anthology, and Reclaim: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. Follow and contact Ahja on Instagram or Twitter at aefoxx.


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