
This selection, chosen by Guest Curator Sally Rosen Kindred, is from Prime Meridian by Connie Post, released by Glass Lyre Press in 2020.
Four Miles from the Center of Town
You will find the body
at the far side of the field
past the sagging rocks
beyond the milk thistle weeds
and the crippled crows
you will need a dog
—who only responds
to sign language
you will need to search
only in fall
when the dusk
smothers the trees
you will need a rope
so you can tie yourself
to a large boulder
when the
soil caves in
you will need a small camera
so you can remember yourself
standing there in
the smoldering light you will find
the sallow, bent body
the smaller self
you
the barely thirteen-year-old
girl lying lifeless
pretending no one will find her
learning to live
in the shallow grave of silence


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