Bestiary: Poems System-Agnostic draw your Best SpeLLs

draw your Best SpeLLs

Seat of House Ker Onar

Water: three billion years old

what were they all to do

While designed to be finished in one sitting

Bestiary: Poems System-Agnostic draw your Best SpeLLsDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the