Poem of the week: Antidotes to Fear of Death by Rebecca Elson | Poetry
An intense engagement with mortality, by a young writer taken too soon, blends religious and scientific imagery Antidotes to Fear of Death Sometimes as an antidoteTo fear of death,I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back,I suck them from the quenching darkTil they are all, all inside me,Pepper hot and sharp.