Little Sister | X.P. Callahan
guest sonnet no. vi
X.P. Callahan, and her newsletter Diary Poems is easily becoming one of my favorite poets to read. Fortunately for me, I hang out with her once every two weeks in Radha Marcum’s Poet’s Circle series, and I can pilfer poems she writes outside of her newsletter. The poem below — frank, wry, heartbreaking — was originally published in Thanatos.
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This is such a powerful, sad and beautiful poem.