The Krugerrand around your neck
………… hits me in the mouth
……………………. every time we come together
………………………………… in the bosom of the night.
Men wearing jewelry should
……………………… make love to armadillos.

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Georgia Syribeys lives in Cumming, Georgia. A lyric narrative poet, she has worked as a private investigator, feminist lobbyist, and itinerant Latin teacher. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was brought up in a bicultural household, is fluent in Greek and English. She is published in Arion, Atlanta Review, Dappled Things, Illuminations, Legacy, Kalliope, SLANT, Time of Singing (5), The Texas Review (2), National League of American Pen Women and Voices. Her book, Sea Seething At My Feet, five sections and 52 poems was published in 2015.