I want a poem that reassembles the body
I want a poem that reassembles the body
I want to feel an overload of metaphors
running from eyes to tongue to fingers,
later, have your coarse voice roll them up
midair,
Clara Burghelea
Clara Burghelea (she/her) is a Romanian-born poet with an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University. Recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award, her poems and translations appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection Praise the Unburied was published with Chaffinch Press in 2021. She is Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation.