DEER WOMAN

by Jana Astanov

I was something stronger

I was carried upward
to that present bonding time

like a widening spellbound ripple

our bodies absorbed the young Spring
emitted their own frequency

antlers grew
from fractured rocks

Jana Astanov is a multidisciplinary artist and a poetess, living in New York. She published four collections of poetry: Antidivine (Undergroundbooks.org), Grimoire, Sublunar, and Birds of Equinox (Red Temple Press).

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Featured artwork by Anastasya.