Bestiary: Poems Senior Fitness • Go behind the scenes

• Go behind the scenes

and bones function

from trusted writers Melissa Clark

a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Miami

Bestiary: Poems Senior Fitness • Go behind the scenesDonika Kelly's fierce debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought myself body enough for two, for we. Found comfort in never being lonely. What burst from my back, from my bones, what lived along the ridge from crown to crown, from mane to forked tongue beneath the skin. What clamor we made in the birthing. What hiss and rumble at the splitting,