Selection from Carol Guess’ “F IN”
: a pocket girl, a coin
Truth or
Dare grape juice,
ketchup, and beer
the
dress should be able to get on with its life
vodka
powder
embroidered
flowers
“Sometimes I lie,”
“Did you lie about Elvis?”
listening to
porn
squinting as she got hot
sleepier pretending
she was underwater
side
road
thump
swollen tire
almost impossible, explained police, to identify the driver.
They told each other that although they fooled other people, they
wouldn’t lie to each other, or lie to themselves.
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This selection is from Carol Guess’ erasure poetry book F IN, available from Noctuary Press. Purchase your copy here!
Carol Guess is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including Darling Endangered, Doll Studies: Forensics, and Tinderbox Lawn. Forthcoming books include How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (co-written with Daniela Olszewska), Instructions For Staging (co-written with Kristina Marie Darling), and With Animal (co-written with Kelly Magee). She is Professor of English at Western Washington University. Follow her here: www.carolguess.blogspot.com.
Meagan Cass is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she teaches courses in creative writing, independent publishing, and composition, curates the Shelterbelt reading series, and advises the campus literary journal, the Alchemist Review. Her fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Pinch, Hobart Web, PANK, and Puerto del Sol, among other journals. Magic Helicopter Press will publish her first fiction chapbook, Range of Motion, in January 2014. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette and an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
