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TWO POEMS by Corinna Rosendahl

by Corinna Rosendahl / Friday, 15 August 2025 / Published in Featured Poetry, Issue 33, Poetry

from Scenes from the Seconds 

 

It was written

 

for an exhibition

that at

the end of her life

Louise Bourgeois circled back

to her birth1

 

When I did as asked

 

like long hair

I pulled my fire back

 

1Unknown

 

***

 

 

Henceforth and forever I am my own

mother2

          crouched in dirt

          squinting at the root

 

Oh but now

 

          it’s just my look

 

                          loosened

 

to dive and surface

 

                  as if to risk worth

 

          beyond birth

 

after which

 

the introductions are endless

 

2Roland Barthes, “Mourning Diary”

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About Corinna Rosendahl

Corinna Rosendahl’s poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at UC Irvine. From Washington state, she lives in Philadelphia. (Photo credit: M.R.)

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