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How to Talk to Predators About Responsibility

By Lily Beaumont
Winter 2020 | Poetry

Did you

leave the ashes smoldering

the way a god would

glide from off the slab

of a girl he’s ravished

belly full

of sleep and meat’s

drippings?

Lily Beaumont is a freelance curriculum and study guide developer currently living in Central Texas. Her creative work has appeared in publications including Open Minds Quarterly, Young Ravens Literary Review, and Rise Up Review; she was also recently featured as a winner of four lines’ quarterly poetry challenge.


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