Bane

By Wendy Videlock

Full of strength and laced

with fragility:

the thoroughbred,

the hummingbird,

and all things

cursed

with agility.

Source: Poetry (January 2013)

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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,...

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