Luisa Muradyan

Tolstoy Buys Another Horse He Doesn’t Need

My favorite review of War and Peace
is from an anonymous account
that thought it needed
“More war and less long descriptions
of women.”
I am one long description
of women. Blonde hair, brown hair,
hair ripped out of the ground
body like tree body like bush
body like meadow made
of bodies. Body young
and beautiful but also
old body like bog and I’m in the dirt again
asking for nothing but to be transformed.

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