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A Bell Ringing



   


Marry
—not my body
its own body—my joy
your joy
will be the sum of joy
ringing
in a body which is
only
growing still
my joy
—my body will become
will become
—our joy
—your joy’s joy
from shared swings manifesting
a body
for a moment before
before the next swing
Cassandra Whitaker (she/they)  is a writer and educator who lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Whit's work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review,  Conjunctions, Foglifter, Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, Lambda Literary Review, and other places. Her full-length collection, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf, is out from Jackleg Press. Wolfs-den.page