Sijo for Easter, Before Dawn ~ Brittney Acosta

I find your ghost entombed in my thighs, that girlish mouth aneling
me with spit, tongue, touch. I confess that, there, I create a sin worth 
dying for, offered up among pruned fingers baptized in your name.

~~~

 Brittney Acosta is a Cuban-American poet born and raised in Miami, Florida. Acosta is a current MFA student in poetry at Florida International University.

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