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Eliza Griswold

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CHICKEN LITTLE IN LOVE

CHICKEN LITTLE IN LOVE

CHICKEN LITTLE IN LOVE

I’m through! I’m through!

she says and resays.

The years pass.

Her feathers gray.

Her eggs

lay themselves

less frequently.

The sky falls.

© 2013, Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

(United States of America, 1973)

Eliza Griswold is a poet and reporter whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the New Republic. Griswold's poems frequently draw on her diverse journalistics assignments, particularly regions in Africa and the Middle East. In her notebook-style essay ‘Everyone Is an Immigrant,’ Griswold explains the productive relationship between her ...

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CHICKEN LITTLE IN LOVE

I’m through! I’m through!

she says and resays.

The years pass.

Her feathers gray.

Her eggs

lay themselves

less frequently.

The sky falls.

CHICKEN LITTLE IN LOVE

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