With A swan’s nest on her back
by
Réka Nyitrai
Réka Nyitrai is a spell, a sparrow, a lioness's tongue — a bird nest in a pool of dusk. She is the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2020 for her debut haiku volume While Dreaming Your Dreams (Valencia Spain: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020). Moon Flogged, her full length poetry collection was released in September 2024 by Broken Sleep Books.
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The history of crying
We are trapped in the cave: Antigone and I. To dispel my fear, Antigone begins to ask various questions Do you know of weeping mountains? Do you know of talking tulips? Do you know about the lead bands God uses to cover the mouth of poets? I tell her that I don't know any of this, but once I saw the devil rubbing salt into the wound of a mountain until the boulders on the mountainside began to weep.
