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They call you muja
of Chihuahuan / knife-toothed
shade / scaled in plates
in forests of saguaro /
along the border near the
desiccated beds
of scattered bones /
left by coral snakes
and rattlers / you
trickster of rendition /
your copper-colored berries
flavor meat for birds of prey /
scent the tatty blankets
hung along barbed-wire /
no allegiance pledged to dead
left flayed / that lime
the deserts of migration
alligator juniper
by kathleen hellen
RABBLE REVIEW No.9
Page: 26
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Kathleen Hellen’s debut collection Umberto’s Night won the poetry prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the author of The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Meet Me at the Bottom, and two chapbooks. Hellen’s awards include the James Still Award, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and prizes from the H.O.W. Journal and Washington Square Review. She is the recipient of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts.
