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Sijo #14

In the Bramble

Behind the rust of an abandoned trailer

I crawl through thickets,

tear a sundress in the branches,

thorns scrape skin into red hash marks,

as I stretch for berries, sour and green.

Published by Danielle Verwers

Danielle Verwers is a writer and teacher in Columbia, SC. Her poetry has appeared in Eastern Iowa Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Peter Pan Prize, the Klyde Robinson Prize, and the McCray Nickens Fellowship for Poetry in 2022.

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