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POETRY

We feel every filament, each short white thread joining us to them. We feel the wholeness of the unpeeled globe. Sometimes wild strawberry runners tangle with your hair as you sleep. // Rose DeMaris

She Said Time Works to Feed Oblivion with Decay of Things ~ forthcoming in Oxford Poetry

Don’t Cry for All the Loves You’ve Lost ~ forthcoming in Inscape

Velvet Variations (an excerpt) ~ Antiphony

Milkweed ~ Psaltery & Lyre

Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative

Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative

Titanium ~ New England Review

Pain is the Beam That Penetrates ~ The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly

Red Crop Milk ~ Image

Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review

Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly

You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly

A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly

I Knew It Was You Who Planted Those Yellow Snapdragons ~ Maiden Magazine

The Pelican ~ Winner, Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award, 2023 Anthology

Vessel ~ Winner, Patricia Dobler Poetry Award

Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday

Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine

Song of the Barren Orange Tree Who Is Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves ~ Dewdrop

Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review

Goodbye, Lebanon (a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh ~ Asymptote

Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press

3 Poems (translations of poems by May Ziadeh) ~ The Los Angeles Review

Twilight (a translation of “Crepescule” by May Ziadeh) ~ Diode

Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review

Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening

Bare Branches ~ Big Sky Journal

Pale Blue ~ Qu