In/Continent
“I used to be an unlit match, ready / to burn for any man, ready / for any hand to reach inside / and get my body back / to holy”
Julia C. Alter
Julia C. Alter is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Recent poems can be found in, or are forthcoming from CALYX, Crab Orchard Review, The Boiler, Bluestem, Memoir Mixtapes, and elsewhere. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her partner and young son. www.alterpoetry.com