Lovestruck
All the arrows go
through me—sharp and gold.
Joy enters
(blind, uninvited violation)
as pure presence
from an innate place within.
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Julia Caroline Knowlton is a Professor of French and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. She has won two separate Georgia Author of the Year awards for her poetry. Her latest volume of poetry is a children’s book. She lives in Atlanta and Paris.
