Kristie Williams Guynn

KRISTIE WILLIAMS GUYNN is doing graduate work in English at the University of Virginia. She has published articles and poetry in Exponent II and various BYU publications.

Sea Piece For Two New Voices

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 3

We are the sisters of the sea. 
Something there is in you and me 
That calls us to our very coasts, bids us stand 
Where green-veined breakers moan upon the sand,
Seeking something the old oceans hide. 

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I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I, 

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 1

I am no monk, no flesh-thresher I, 
To winnow out, by dank silence, 
By hooded hunger and the raw, unflagging flail, 
That Adam’s chaff, desire, 
Till the husk of me lie powder on the stone. 

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