From the Vault: Jacqui Corcoran's "dwindling black violas"

peripheralsurveys:

“There is no roof enough high

for these fistfuls of lost breaths.

Black velvet burial suits,

Yellow trapped mouths in violet;

Small freedoms cut short – unlived.”


— From Jacqui Corcoran’s poem “dwindling black violas,” which appeared in Peripheral Surveys (Aug. 2011).

Read the full poem here.