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Issue 80
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- Kelli Russell Agodon
- Heather Altfeld
- Derrick Austin
- Sam Barbee
- Michael Carman
- Adam Chiles
- Matthew Carter Gellman
- Stephen Harvey
- Holly Karapetkova
- Stephen Knauth
- Sara London
- Maren O. Mitchell
- Susan Musgrave
- D Nurkse
- Alison Palmer
- Doug Ramspeck
- Mitchell Andrew David Untch
- Joshua Weiner
- Jennifer Wheelock
- Ken White
- Emily Paige Wilson
Issue > Poetry
Holly Karapetkova
Holly Karapetkova's poetry, prose, and translations from the Bulgarian have appeared recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO and many other places. Her second book, Towline, won the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize.The Life of Objects
My body
is a boat
fastened with rope
where water
trips on the skirt
of its tide.
One man built me
another man bought me
& so I wait
nailed & tied
to carry him across.
What I want
is to untether
to row myself
out to open ocean
be torn apart
and there
to float
driftwood
drunk with salt,
to wash ashore
on a nameless island
where no one
& nothing
says mine.
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Heather Altfeld
Late Atonement, Lower Sierra
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Kelli Russell Agodon
Near-Death Experience
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Susan Musgrave
The Way The Stubborn Land Goes Soft Before The Sea