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The Eleventh Brother, After the Swan


by Kirsty Logan


I made this:

attired in stingers            gloved in blood

muting is beauty            fainting is love

 

I turned a maiden            to a witch

and back                        again

 

then I

half-beast             half-brother

cast out from palace and heavens —

I scud

keening

at her blistered heels.

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