Margaret Hanshaw
—
Beach at Sunset
To swallow this horizontal.
To drink this
throat of indigo and poppy
red.
To follow
this
wrack
line
down
my injuries,
refusing
more injury.

Margaret Hanshaw is a poet and writer from Sudbury, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in New American Writing, West Branch, Bennington Review, Verse Daily, VOLT, Vallum, Hayden's Ferry Review, Posit, Prelude, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Yellow Ripe (dancing girl press).
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