Buzzards circle overhead

God I hope they are coming for me

For all the things within me that I hope to die;

Shame, self doubt, unworthiness,

Please decay in my back woods

“She is wild”, in our modern dialect, has come to mean a behavior of unhinged excess. It calls to mind a woman recklessly unsatiated by her intoxicants and social outings, who is, therefore, causing harm to herself and others. But, there is a reclamation of the word “wild” and, alongside that, the restoration of a truly wild woman.