Lara Georgieff was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New York City.

Le Chien

by Lara Georgieff

Napoleon, I love you shamefully.

With your pony hair, with your steel buckles,
with your faux medals that click as you walk.
I have pulled my hand from your mouth with a red cry:
blood on the snow, your mouth a sill of ivory,
my blood on the snow—yet I love you.
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