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Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
SETH JANI
I will ask for nothing
save for a peach
from your mother’s orchard,
a spider from the attic
of your youth,
a small coin of honey
dropped into the corner of my mouth.
I will ask for nothing, though you will take
great continents from my body,
entire episodes of the heart.
And afterward, with only my
remaining hand of snowdrift,
you will go off with everything.
The fullness of my life absorbed and stolen.
Its secrets eaten and disclosed.
Seth Jani lives in Seattle, WA and is the founder of Seven CirclePress (www.sevencirclepress.com). Their work has appeared in The American Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, Ghost City Review, Rust+Moth and Pretty Owl Poetry, among others. Their full-length collection, Night Fable, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2018. Visit them at www.sethjani.com.