Selection from Carol Guess’ “F IN”
It isn’t easy to get a ghost drunk.
sugary
camera
doll
posing below
a good
thing to crave
iris escaped
asked for it
no
spread
out at school
lawn s
shoplift
the practice
car
hit any curbs
kid
?”
buried the
creepy
guy
‘s key
red
sky
fucking. It was a thing.”
“Do you want to get married?”
“Not to a boy.”
elaborate metalwork: birds blossoms
brambles
blackberries snapped
falling onto the grass
—
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.
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