“Boys with swords” by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (poetry, ’05)

An excerpt from “Boys with swords” by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (poetry, ’05), published at Guesthouse:

Boys with swords

in the forest. One is wood,
flames painted

to the hilt. Dry October,
sparks

of the papery eucalyptus.
One of them swings,

one of them ducks.
Wood on wood,

fracture in the line of fire.
It feels good

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