Devotion & Infidelity by Corinna Rae Reilly

Devotion & Infidelity

by Corinna Rae Reilly

hush · issue 4


 

If I look tired     this is why:
            I crouched
in a garden, waiting
for bees.


           Blind
to the radio-red              of my lips
                          they missed –


suckled bluebell and gave me extra
                                                  sting.

Corinna Rae Reilly

Corinna lives surrounded by trees in New York's Hudson Valley where she shares a home with her husband, two dogs, and cat. While she has never stopped creating, her work has recently returned to a poetry practice that began decades ago with a BA in Literature and Writing from SUNY Purchase. Her poems explore relationship, memory, and the natural world through a feminist lens.