My Clan

Fiction & Poetry
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – My Clan

  • Author – Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Poetry

  • Type – Poem

  • Publication Date – August 6, 2014

  • Publisher – Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, Issue 122. (Anthologized in 2014 Crack the Spine Edition and 2015 Edition of Utah Sings) (USA)

  • Medium – Magazine

  • Available at – Crack the Spine Literary Magazine (via ISSUU)

  • Link – https://issuu.com/crackthespine/docs/issue_122

  • PDF – My Clan

  • Source Text:

    My Clan

    In my clan the babies ride horses,
    snug between saddle and womb,
    manes flying loose in the coarse

    sea breeze. We fall. We lick our wounds.
    We tumble, again.
    Women shriek and beat the drums

    as echoes wash over. The men,
    starved and impatient, die young.
    But we know where to go when

    the wind shifts. We know which vein
    to tap. We know when the hawk descends
    on a twisted course, and the red pine

    bends to earth, that silence is at hand.
    Stars glare down on thin clouds and drifting sand.

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Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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