by Terese Coe
The Vitae were not living.
The winds devolved to wild.
Their houses blown to powder,
the children were reviled.
The rancor unforgiving,
the slaughter undefined,
an end would come to giving,
then cursed was humankind.
Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Agenda, The Moth, New Walk Magazine, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review, the TLS, The Stinging Fly, and many other publications and anthologies. Her latest collection Shot Silk was nominated for The Poets Prize of 2017.