Khaleesi Says
BY LEAH UMANSKY
In this story, she is fire-born:
knee-deep in the shuddering world.
In this story, she knows no fear,
for what is fractured is a near-bitten star,
a false-bearing tree,
or a dishonest wind.
In this story, fear is a house gone dry.
Fear is not being a woman.
I'm no ordinary woman, she says.
My dreams come true.
And she says and she is
and I say, yes, give me that.
Source: Poetry (January 2014).
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