Wendell Hawken is the author of the poetry collection The Luck of Being. She earned her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers and lives on a farm in the northern Shenandoah Valley.

Two Poems

by Wendell Hawken

Tongue

Tongue of fire, bell’s intoning,
sex exploding, tongue of wagon
pulling, tongue of belt unbuckling
to whip the child.
Say aahhh.
Hounds in full cry: give tongue.

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