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A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Tishani Doshi’s River of Girls

  • Elizabeth Cohen

    • “This is the sound of ten million girls
    singing of a time in the universe
    when they were born with tigers
    breathing between their thighs;
    when they set out for battle
    with all three eyes on fire,
    their golden breasts held high
    like weapons to the sky.”

    —from “River of Girls,” by Tishani Doshi

    This sentence represents for me what a sentence would be if a sentence were itself a goddess, ancient, powerful, fierce, without pause or self doubt.

     

     

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