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For poets like Tishani Doshi , this is true , as these methods of inverted justice help victims of sexual violence in ‘ Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods ’, though Doshi goes further than Willis ’ s smoke , and puts power directly into women ’ s abused bodies . Doshi ’ s poem speaks from a position of collective female rage , violence an overwhelming ‘ bright desperation / of sound ’. There is something magical in their resurrection , as the girls arrive ‘ wrapped in cloaks and hoods , / carrying iron bars and candles / and a multitude of scars ’, but we must thick of the witch with some hesitance here . Doshi rejects Chasin ’ s methods of locality in ‘ The Witch House ’, specifying attacks on ‘ city / buses , in temples and bars ’, and ‘ acres ’ of unspoilt ‘ premature grass ’. This is because Chasin ’ s poem concerns a legacy of suffering , meanwhile , Doshi writes about active pain , about modern victims of sexual violence ,