“Elegy” by E.C. Belli

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plein jeuAfter prayer, palms part like blossoming
buds and the cliffs glide down the stream

like driftwood. Worshippers, provenance
unknown, spill out of the church, returning
to their animal skin. Were we to confess,

we would not blink: our faces, smooth
dials upon which to read remorse.

At morning, the wound will be cauterized
with crushed petal, feather and bone,
oiled rags still lying coiled in the landfill.

–E.C. Belli,
plein jeu (2010)
Accents Publishing

A Swiss native, E.C. Belli’s poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, FIELD, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, Caketrain, Mid-American Review and also in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, PO&SIE and Voix d’Encre (France). Her prose has also appeared in Words Without Borders, BOMBlog and Iris (University of Virginia). She is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Writing and Translation at Columbia University where she was the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She writes in both French and English.

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