Thrum

 

Poetry by Clayre Benzadón

 
 

Thrum

You are harmless without antlers,
rare amidst hard tusk-teeth, raiding
essence of alpine, lichen, a musk

fang puncturing
the small muscle

of a poached
vulnerability.

 

Clayre Benzadón is a third-year MFA student at the University of Miami and Broadsided Press’s Instagram editor. Her chapbook Liminal Zenith was published by SurVision Books. She was awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for "Linguistic Rewilding", has been published by The Acentos Review, Kissing Dynamite, Hobart (as well as other publications), and also has a translation forthcoming in The Blue Nib.

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