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Fire Alive

By Susan Hu
Fall 2019 | Poetry

What must it feel like

To be burned all along your consciousness

To feel your senses ignite

Like a live wire as your skin

Slowly melts away to its hollow

Recesses, revealing pure white

Bone


Birds Photo
Daguerreotype by Susan Hu

Susan Hu is a writer, poet, editor whose works previously appeared in Lumen. She is a self-professed bibliophile and recent graduate from Towson University (with an M.S. in Professional Writing). She posts about her daily obsession with food on Instagram @moody_foodie_ and can be reached via email at [email protected]


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