Bane
Full of strength and laced
with fragility:
the thoroughbred,
the hummingbird,
and all things
cursed
with agility.
Wendy Videlock is the author of the full-length poetry collections Slingshots and Love Plums (2015), The Dark Gnu and Other Poems 7 (2013), and Nevertheless (2011), as well as the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean (2010). Known for poems that evoke myth, fairy tale, and the natural world,...