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Sara Biggs Chaney

St. Eugenia Declares Her Allegiances

The girl said: I am not skin, 
but sackcloth.  

She said: I am not spoke,
but symphony. 

My rib bones, how they burn 
for the Son.

For Him, I will suffer
this harmonic ache--

I will pin my maiden head,
a moth wing,

I will bear the shames 
of a thousand men,

I will wear the hands
of a healer.




Sara Biggs Chaney received her Ph.D. in English in 2008 and currently teaches first-year and upper-level writing in Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. Her most recent chapbook, Ann Coulter's Letter to the Young Poets, was released from dancing girl press in November, 2014. Sara's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in RHINO, Sugar House Review, [PANK], and elsewhere. You can catch up with Sara at sarabiggschaney.com





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