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The Sealey Challenge Day 20

Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The Sealey Challenge Day 20

The Sealey Challenge Day 20

By day, I ask of those who come to me for answers,
what would you say, asked by a poet
whose tongue and nails have been removed, whose nipples
are cratered with ash, to account for your freedom?

—from “Evensong,” in Perpetua, by Olga Broumas

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