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January 1, 2019


   



The rain had amended it in fossil fuel

And the soul turned back from life

Over there behind the shelf rich rinds

A precious flourish of tangerines

You to the kilometer of smiles

Mainly quickened by the pulse of terrain

Lush solutions to a ceviche arrival

Merely demeanor how to the tongue

Crackling fissures into matcha

Some reason overturning the rest break

Wave repetitions along bees and baby insects

These sick days making themselves known




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December 4, 2019
October 15, 2018




From Lines by Sarah Riggs, published May 2025 by Winter Editions. Copyright © 2025 by Sarah Riggs.


Sarah Riggs is the author of eight books of poetry in English, including: Pomme & Granite (2015), winner of the 1913 Poetry Prize, Eavesdrop (Chax, 2020), The Nerve Epistle (Roof Books, 2021), and Lines (Winter Editions, 2025). She has translated and co-translated seven books of contemporary French poetry into English, including Etel Adnan's TIME (Nightboat, 2019), recipient of the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award in 2020. Riggs lives in Brooklyn, after many years in Paris.