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Montauk, NY

By Lia Greenwell
Poetry•Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)

I went to see how much
light
              I could take.

It was much.

The bluffs threatened
              to crumble under me
but stood. This was the end

               of the country.

I walked into the sea,
through boulders
              hidden in wait.

How much of it

              could I take?

In the water, I became lit
from my head

              like a wick,        a seaflower

a jellyfish, glowing

                          headblown

and spreading.

Lia Greenwell
The recipient of scholarships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lia Greenwell has recently contributed poems to Painted Bride Quarterly, Flyway, and Poecology. Originally from the Midwest, she currently lives in North Carolina where she serves as the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College.

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