Each Spring

Each spring a necessary trespass,  
a living epitaph.  

I wake into willow and may
only affect    the yogic position  
of blowing away,  
yoked as I am to the humanity
that makes me a tree.  

Under my gay wallowing, meet me.

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from Issue 8 of Antiphony

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Chloe Bliss Snyder is a poet from upstate New York and a current MFA candidate at Boise State University. Her recent work can be found in The Chicago Review, SARKA, Copenhagen, and Antiphony. Her chapbook Ekho & Narkissos was published by The Swan and its recording can be heard on PennSound. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Panther and Other Poems is forthcoming from Ornithopter Press.