Two Poems by Rebecca Foust (poetry, '10)

An excerpt from “Guernica,” one of two poems by Rebecca Foust (poetry, ’10) published at Salamander:

Do you still look and see that it is good?
You spoke, then saw what you’d wrought.
We are the monster in the mirror, God,

your world made of words. Let there be untied
sky from earth and sea, night from light,
and you looked and saw that it was good.

With spit and a fistful of dust, you made
the first man. Then to make Eve, took him apart.
You made everything, even the mirror, God

and it’s all carnage. A cell cleaves to breed.
Before one war ends, the next one will start,
then the next—still looking? Still good?—

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Two Poems by Rebecca Foust (poetry, ’10)