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"There is a lot to discover in Darkly Told. It doesn’t offer immediate answers, nor is it meant to do so, but it will repay careful listening. Hopefully, this chapbook will be successful enough to prompt Alicia Cole to make a few more. Fans are better off for its appearance." - Dead Reckonings No. 18
A Throat Circus
By Lana Bella
Down she will come from
among the branches
and roots, feathered skirts
pulled from the many
birds of the meridian sea.
She disciplined hands,
forgetting an entire winter
of throat missing glass,
where sorrow and gin met
in the damp of thumb
and fingers. A version of
mad stretching towards
the chignon of a girl scried
down in the lake, mouth
snagged on briars' flints,
traveling her lips the better
to shape hymns of water.
A four-time Pushcart Prize, five-time Best of the Net & Bettering American Poetry nominee, Lana Bella is an author of three chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016), Adagio (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and Dear Suki: Letters (Platypus 2412 Mini Chapbook Series, 2016), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 450 journals, Acentos Review, Comstock Review, EVENT, Ilanot Review, Notre Dame Review, Rock and Sling, & Lampeter Review, among others, and work to appear in Aeolian Harp Anthology, Volume 3.
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