"I will always compare love's death
to the way a hunted wild thing dies.
Alone, betrayed
and desperately fighting
against all odds
to stay alive."

@nikitagill.bsky.social, from "When Love Dies," in her book "Wild Embers" (Hatchette Books, 2017)

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"I guess to them it's a terrifying thought,
a Red Riding Hood
who knew exactly
what she was doing
when she invited the wild in."

Nikita Gill, from "Girls of the Wild," in "Wild Embers," Hachette Books, 2017.

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Photo of the book "Wild Embers" by Nikita Gill. The book is open to the poem "Pandora's Box." The text reads in part, "Why do we shame Pandora... Shouldn't we rather blame the person who created a box of such terrible power?" There is a lighter next to the book and a stenciled box reading "DESTROY PROMPTLY."

Dangerous ideas from "Wild Embers" by Nikita Gill (@nikitagill.bsky.social), Hachette Books, 2017.
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