Dorsía Smith Silva
My daughter is the wolf of me
moonhowls my four-legged desires
into rivers of lupine flower & alpha star
hunts down fears nesting in hunter
sniffs lumps of green to thirst caribou
bloats on stars’ colostrum like extra moonlight
marvel at her wilderness unwhittled
which mirrors my own
same anthem combing through trees
same trots of desire
unbending to night’s stubby clouds
rain whisks us to den
darkness circled into tree trunks
slow-downed blood gets a season
we curve to a lick
Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), poetry editor of The Hopper, and Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is also the editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the coeditor of seven books. She has received support from Bread Loaf and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and she is a member of the Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort of Poets & Writers.