Nkechi Ebubedike, Cloud Collage VI (detail), featured in AGNI 104
Mystery Ending With a Girl in a Field
You’ve heard it before—but listen:
I brought you into this world,_
I can take you out of it._
I know what you’re thinking.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.
Nothing’s resolved. But what does it matter?
I could pull these petals off all day,
mouthing he loves me, he loves me not.
Published:
| Online 2006
Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann has published poems in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Her first book, Temper (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. (updated 6/2010)
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