Emily Vieweg
Welcome
You will either live within tulips or
chains. Both will wrap around your tongue
and bite your cheek – one will nip, feel warm
and smell of honey and sweetness – the other will gnaw and
claw and clamp and you will bleed from muscles
and places you never knew existed –
your body will belong to whomever is in power.
Perhaps rethink your journey.
Perhaps study our history.
It repeats…
It repeats…
It repeats…
Emily Vieweg is a poet originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been published in Soundings Review, Art Young’s Good Morning, Proximity Magazine, Spillwords.com and more. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she is a mother of two, cat wrangler and office assistant.
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