Distress Coils
Read 'Distress Coils' by 'Judith Skillman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Poem by Anne-Marie Derése, translated by Judith Skillman.
The waiting volcano inside us
gnaws, digs, trembles,
weighs its chances.
Distress coils up,
shrinks silent like a sick beast.
We are unrecognizable,
unique
in the certainty of our ferocity.
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