“Alecto” by Maya Phillips (poetry ’17)

An excerpt from “Alecto” by Maya Phillips (poetry ’17), published by The Missouri Review.

Alecto

because a woman scorned.

because there is precedence for such a thing.

                                                        such a thing being the man                                                                                                                   and the woman
                                                to which he was sworn                        (scorned)
                                                                                                                        now wed
                                                                      to this matter of things             being

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