Painlessly love damaged the flesh
Something like a blade
Loaded amongst
High feverish efforts
Life narcotically
Unloosed and sacrificed
Author's Notes/Comments:
This is a found poem from p. 133 of Thomas Keneally's The Woman of the Inner Sea. MLA citation:
Keneally, Thomas. Woman of the Inner Sea. New York: Plume, 1994. 133.