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Doris Ferleger

Doris Ferleger is the author of four volumes of poetry, Big Silences in a Year of Rain, When You Become Snow, As the Moon Has Breath and Leavened. Winner of the New Letters Poetry Prize and the A Room of Her Own (AROHO) Creative Nonfiction Prize, among others, her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, L.A. Review, and The New Guard.

As for the Kiss

As for the kiss, I had left
my mouth already and all the words
I had ever spoken
floated like green glass bottles
on the shoreline of your world,
the world I was leaving.
You were right to be afraid.
But not of death or the smell of death
or the gaunt and strange face
I had become. You loved me
more than you could
bear if you had come any closer.