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Poetry

Legion

Katherine Indermaur

 

I wake coiled                      with morning

The sky heaves         like a cracked stone

Each quiet inch of skin                   I offer

To sun pierced           a legion of freckles

At the middle of your life lies your death

At the middle of mine               this story

 

It will never be the same           to starve

 

 

 

(The last line comes from Emily Dickinson’s “Oh Sumptuous Moment”: “’Twill never be the same to starve”)

"Croquis (Sketch)" by Paul-Cesar Helleu
Katherine Indermaur is the author of 'I|I' (Seneca Review Books), winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize and the 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and two chapbooks. She serves as an editor for Sugar House Review. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, the Journal, New Delta Review, Ninth Letter, the Normal School, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.