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A review by lelex
Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao
4.0
I liked this. Learned a lot of new words and had my dictionary open most of the time, like a few other reviews recommended. My favorites were Sonnets for Kudryavka, Apology, with Stigma, and Drop-kick Aria. The continual references to dire wolves and bees and various animals was so so good.
"I don't teach my girls to brave the violence of sun, sons, or stings. When resources run out, don't sit there and behave. Abandon hive."
"Under the hives you shiver, you prowl; oh puff adder, ibex, blood hook & bees: what can the sand or teeth believe?"
"Mammal as asteroid, ultimate runaway. Who are you, whose kismet matches the greats - a martyr for thought, like Socrates? Will you drink the hemlock of space? You, Laika, original cosmonaut."
"The lightning in my temple wards off wolves."
"I stirred five bullets in your burned porridge, stole the money you sewed into the mattress, and took a bus south of my sorrow"
"I won't go to bed hungry. I wait for your footsteps, slicing an apple with a borrowed knife."
"If I could do girlhood again, I'd ask to be scarier. Less whimpering - more pyromaniac urges, more flirting with kerosene."
"I don't teach my girls to brave the violence of sun, sons, or stings. When resources run out, don't sit there and behave. Abandon hive."
"Under the hives you shiver, you prowl; oh puff adder, ibex, blood hook & bees: what can the sand or teeth believe?"
"Mammal as asteroid, ultimate runaway. Who are you, whose kismet matches the greats - a martyr for thought, like Socrates? Will you drink the hemlock of space? You, Laika, original cosmonaut."
"The lightning in my temple wards off wolves."
"I stirred five bullets in your burned porridge, stole the money you sewed into the mattress, and took a bus south of my sorrow"
"I won't go to bed hungry. I wait for your footsteps, slicing an apple with a borrowed knife."
"If I could do girlhood again, I'd ask to be scarier. Less whimpering - more pyromaniac urges, more flirting with kerosene."