The Siren’s Song

It’s not what you hear

but what you think

you hear

in me

 

that makes you tie yourself

to the sails—

 

this is the maddening

of the seas.

 

Marilia Angeline is a poet, writer, actor, and transformation coach based in Los Angeles. She holds B.A.s from The University of Michigan in Creative Writing & Literature and Drama. Her poetry often explores neurodivergence and the mind body spirit connection, as well as myth and magic and her Greek-Cypriot ancestry. Marilia’s poems have been published by the City of West Hollywood, Yale Younger Poet Prize Winner Richard Siken’s Spork Press, Myth & Lore, redrosethorns magazine, and Spoon Knife 9. She is working on her debut poetry book.

 

Photo by Kevin Oetiker on Unsplash

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