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The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy

 

Salome

How does a man

breeze into this

canyon with only

a pocketful of

nuts. Plaid

coat, walking stick.

Handkerchiefing

forehead. Sniffly

dog furring

pounding descent

into the canyon.

Foot sweat, backache.

He claims trout,

stream fed, catches them

two at a time. He will

wander down to not

disturb us. Calls

dog breath dripping tongue

mid-drink. They are

tail flash, disappearing

trail. We are

warm camp stove, fettuccine,

Bushmills flask,

sleeping bag, camp chair,

water filter, coffee mug,

kiss me. We are

ten miles deep

into the gash.

 

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This selection comes from Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Collection of Poetry, Bully Love, available from Press 53.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.  Her collection Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press) won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Stephen Dunn, and the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy

 

Blue Juice Sky

 

Stalled, wing-deep in road-kill, the vulture

stares towards our rushing, flicks away

just as our tires straddle another anonymous carcass.

The bird jerks skyward, his beak packed with flesh, bone.

At the trailhead our doors open, our cold air meets hot.

Temperatures converge and compete for all the dark

pockets of my body. We discuss what won’t fit

into my pack: cook stove, white fuel, tent and pads,

a bladder of wine. I am softer. We know my lungs will

cramp and fill, offering fluid like a pot of strained peas.

The sun is you: everywhere. In moments my skin is moist.

My eyes pound and film. Rock and dirt shimmer like light.

Three hours deep we startle a pack of coatimundi. As each

disappears over the ridge I remember my neighbor in and out

of sight on his roof, his a/c whining with some inefficacy,

his wife at the window, bare breast exposed, the baby clawing

like a soft red lizard. I can’t decide when to care for you. Or how.

 

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This selection comes from Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Collection of Poetry, Bully Love, available from Press 53.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.  Her collection Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press) won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Stephen Dunn, and the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy

 

Remission

 

Pigeons nest in the front palms

song clocking the afternoon

their white rain storming.

Birds remind us who was first on this earth.

The universe dares us to touch anything.

Yesterday we walked your boyhood streets

overgrown with oaks, watched your father

filling just enough space to not be gone,

tossed rocks into the Severn river,

took the 10 a.m. flight back to Phoenix.

Today when I enter the car my earrings blaze,

burn my neck when I turn my head to back

out of my parking space. Some people

are longer for this world than others.

I want to hold them in my hands like a bird.

 

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This selection comes from Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Collection of Poetry, Bully Love, available from Press 53.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.  Her collection Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press) won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Stephen Dunn, and the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy

 

Goodbye, Ohio

 

I think this is what I know:

corn in moronic rows. A few

cows lisping near the barn.

Father in the house cleaning a dish.

Mother cozy in her latest asylum.

Ragweed descends like snow.

Crops on the brain,

father sends me to mice the fields,

his low-ground cat-lover child.

I find no mice skimming the dirt.

I find no cicadas, no starlings.

The sun will come careening

through the kitchen window.

And I will bolt west for

my own feline sky.

 

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This selection comes from Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Collection of Poetry, Bully Love, available from Press 53.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.  Her collection Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press) won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Stephen Dunn, and the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hemlock by Emilia Phillips

 

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This selection comes from Emilia Phillips’s chapbook, Hemlock, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Emilia Phillips is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hemlock by Emilia Phillips

 

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This selection comes from Emilia Phillips’s chapbook, Hemlock, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Emilia Phillips is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hemlock by Emilia Phillips

 

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This selection comes from Emilia Phillips’s chapbook, Hemlock, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Emilia Phillips is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hemlock by Emilia Phillips

 

 

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This selection comes from Emilia Phillips’s chapbook, Hemlock, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Emilia Phillips is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Hemlock by Emilia Phillips

 

 

 

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This selection comes from Emilia Phillips’s chapbook, Hemlock, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Emilia Phillips is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including the forthcoming Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Revenge of the Asian Woman by Dorothy Chan

 

America the Delicious

At a Thai restaurant in Kowloon,

I’m waiting for my green curry and duck

when my aunt asks me about American food,

and I’m looking down on this view—

the Times Square of Asia, wondering why, oh dear,

Auntie, why do you want to know

about American food when you live in Asia,

the food continent of the world,

and I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again, goddamn

Marco Polo stole our noodles,

passing them off as spaghetti, and I know it’s all

a myth, but don’t steal my food,

don’t steal my dumplings, don’t steal my spring rolls

rolled by my father, who used to

make miniature ones for our beloved Buzzie,

and in Kowloon, my green curry and duck

comes, and I’m already ready for dessert,

because there’s nothing better in life than eating,

other than kissing all night long and coconut

coconut coconut, the mango sticky rice comes

in purple and the Woon Bai Toey, and I wonder:

Just what is so sweet about America: America

the Delicious, America of the hot dogs drizzled

in ketchup and mustard, not fancy Dijon,

only classic and yellow, classic and yellow, throw in

grilled onions and a pickle, and some

days I’m really craving a large pickle in my mouth,

sour and suck, sour and suck, followed by a large

bowl of rice, but who am I kidding, as a grown ass

woman, my father still scolds me for not finishing

the whole bowl, because I’m not a good little

Chinese girl, and I know that combination’s odd,

but you’ve got to admit that deep frying everything

at the fair is on a whole other level of aliens

landing, getting confused level of weird, and I try

explaining deep-fried butter to my aunt,

or what deep-fried Oreos or deep-fried cookie dough

or deep-fried bubblegum or deep-fried

Twinkies, aren’t you ever the most adorable thing,

and my aunt wants to know more, she wants

to taste the craze: the cereal on donuts,

the cheesecakes dipped in blue raspberry

chocolate, the chicken and waffles, chicken

and waffles and edible flowers and ketchup

chips and cupcakes and don’t you ever stop

by the cake section of your grocery store and just

want to lick an entire bowl of blue icing,

because life is too short, and I really could use another

Thai iced tea as Kowloon kids are lining

up for gai daan jai, the Chinese egg waffles,

the Queen of Hong Kong street food, and an ocean

away, New Yorkers are lining up for the same

waffles but with sprinkles and Fruity Pebbles

and Pocky and marshmallows, and that’s a little

too much, and America, you’re delicious,

but stop tainting my Hong Kong street food—

stop tainting that legendary mile-long line waiting

for their gai daan jai and fish balls and my cousin

goes crazy over that curry and curry

squid and octopus tentacles and fried pig intestines

and egg tarts and siu mai, and oh,

Hong Kong, you cutie, you’re delicious—

don’t you ever change, and yes, I’ll take

a couple fish balls on a skewer to go.

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This selection comes from Dorothy Chan’s full-length book, Revenge of the Asian Woman, available from Diode Editions.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Dorothy Chan is the author of Attack of the Fiy-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018) and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, e Cincinnati Review, e Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of e Southeast Review and Poetry Editor of Hobart.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.