Two Poems
“the blight it takes to crack / into a redflesh, juice splatter / at the neck and breast, thickthroated / with pulp”
Poetry
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The Poet to the Nun
By Anna Elkins
“In my language, earth / is an anagram for heart / (& angels glean / integrals & triangles / & lighted delight.)”
After a Line by Montaigne
By Karen Rigby
“A throat holds as much song as you let it. / The span between a bird’s wings the same as a fist.”
Self-Portrait in Lieu of My EP
“It’s like that very first taste of hypocrisy, like that fetal position we practice and fittingly forget when the speakers pick me up with my filth”
“How We Glitter Up” & “Shebang”
“In the upcoming years, or the morning or evening skies / we acquaint ourselves with slow deaths.”
Child of the sea
“My father knows me by names / that are not mine. / Tonight, I’m the fishwife.”
view from the highway
“immodest / of a rural town displaying like that // its hill long”
Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
“There is a word for the fear of water, but not of drowning. Another / for the fear of darkness, but not how it hides a person’s face.”
Two Poems
“an event-horizon / of question marks // all the way to / non-identity”