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Caroline O’Connor Thomas

BIOLOGICAL POEM

In your father’s home       the universe came
                                  in one, unstitched
            to me                        awake, to hear
the darkly knit celestial               breathing––
                               what does it mean
to you, the black calf
un-surrounded,                        lonely, we say ––
what does it mean to you,
leaves in the swimming pool            swirling and
absent as from              a distance some light
            changes the color of         the water
a secret definition            of fatted
appears: the woman,
            always loving you more,
in the forest buries her   medicine,            descends bare from
            the hill and you never   know the difference.

Caroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer from the Hudson Valley and Southern Maine, who currently resides in the Bay Area. She received her MFA in Poetry from St. Mary’s College of California in 2014. Following graduation, she was invited to participate in Tin House’s Summer Workshop as one of their 2014 Poetry Scholars. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag Publishing. For more on her writing and whereabouts visit carolineoconnorthomas.com.

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