Author: Cleopatra Mathis

Cited by

• Michelle Gagnon (1)
  • IN: Don't Let Go (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Heaven got sweeter, its paperweight curve star-crazy at its purple center. She’d found a god, a weapon in the works. Something I hadn’t noticed in the field fought out of the layers and took her. I tore away the land’s every color, withered the smallest grasses. Every heartbeat went blank, I dismantled the ticking. They only say what I took, not what I gave: roots and strong light, glory in the single shoot, green currency of the just-born. From the irredeemable, the buried—this is how a self gets made. Remember, that darkness contained the seed sealed in the swollen red globe. Hell had to pay
    FROM: After Persephone, (2001), Poem, US