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Susan Mitchell

Soprano Tough Orange

January 7, 2019

With a stutter and a sneeze,
that’s how, with catch as
catch can, with a quick
spritz of cologne, a shake
of good-luck charms. Where they
can, that’s where, and if there
is a better place than
along this highway, how would
a flower know?

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Benjamin Garcia

Ode to the Peacock

January 4, 2019

In the language of handkerchiefs // there’s really nothing // I don’t want
I’m glad to be paid in gold // when the devil beats his // you know what

if you think it’s indecent // for a body to fan open iridescent // gird your gaze
because honey I’m throwing up // my kerchief like a flare-gun shot // watch me

unskirt a frosted muffin // top me with sprinkles // I’m flashing red-yellow-green-go
you’re the stallion and I’m the mare // smear my queer into the mirror // now you

are the mare and I am // the stale smell in the restroom stall // and you’re an all-
you-can-eat buffet // let me say your eyes are the most beautiful // urinal cake blue

blew as in the past tense of blow // blow as in coke even though you // suck it up
buttercup and butterscotch // a man named Scott wants his Scotch // filthy gorgeous

or maybe that’s a martini // a man named Martin a man named // who knows what
who knows what it means to pluck roses // from my chest // using just his teeth

and sometimes yes blood // which is thicker than water // I know something thicker
it’s called incest // when a nephew makes his uncle say uncle // say pee say cock

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Alison C. Rollins

Five and a Possible 

September 25, 2018

Poetry from NER 39.3

 

Spades is a way of life for black folks.
My mother went into labor
In the middle of a game.
I was born as
Five and a possible. . . . 

 

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Alison C. Rollins, born and raised in St. Louis city, currently works as a librarian for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, she is also a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Her debut poetry collection, Library of Small Catastrophes, is forthcoming (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).

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Heather Christle

In Order of Appearance

June 27, 2018

New poetry from NER 39.2
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View From the Ruin by Jennifer Fitzgerald
The swimming hole abuts
the swimming mountain
she said and I believed her
until I began to think about it,
but I hated to see the mountain disappear
so instead I thought about weasels,
handbags, the future, people I hate

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Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Heliopause (Wesleyan University Press, 2015). She lives in a small village in Ohio.

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