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Love Pathology

SWWIM Every Day
by Angela Sucich

because some words should never sit together
like your name
& forgiveness

I split the syllables, groan out two
vowels coated with acidity
the fission that heats my pot of alchemy

because Euripides saw a sorceress
repay the measure of her furious
love in equal amount

I stir our simmered speech, broken-down
connective tissue till we are beyond
recognition

because skin that once flushed now burns
because we raise red and hive heat
because we fume like mercury
because love changes form
because I am past curses but just as devoted

I keep simmering, a kind of company

Angela Sucich holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Washington. Her chapbook, Illuminated Creatures (Finishing Line 2023), won the 2022 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. Her poems and short prose have appeared in such journals as Nimrod International Journal, Cave Wall, Atlanta Review, and Whale Road Review. She was honorably mentioned for the 2021 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the 2020 Francine Ringold Award.

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