Michelle Bitting is the author of six poetry collections: Dummy Ventriloquist (C & R, 2024); Good Friday Kiss, winner of the inaugural De Novo First Book Award; Notes to the Beloved, which won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award; The Couple Who Fell to Earth; Broken Kingdom, winner of the 2018 Catamaran Poetry Prize; and Nightmares & Miracles (Two Sylvias Press, 2022), winner of the Wilder Prize. Bitting is a lecturer in poetry and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University and in film studies at University of
Arizona Global.

Requiem

by Michelle Bitting
Go love without the help of any thing on earth.
—William Blake


Go with stones in your pocket,
the leaden call of clear water.
This wild stream
you’re running after,
a plunging dream
and wrecking ball, sunk.

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