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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
fumes
 
my eyelids sun-greased but I’m not
really watching you      blinds
slice lunchtime light bleaching
 
printer paper     plates     my body
 
everywhere you leave your
sour formalities         flailing
 
& the vinegar bubbles up
your drainpipe throat   eats
the lacquer off your     smile
 
you want what you can’t halve &
maybe that’s why you blanch at
the sight of me living
 
I am turning the gaslights back up
foul-filling your face with
something acrid
 
the prickling of my scalp comes in
waves my legs cut through my skirt
 
I can gather up my breath again


Emily Murman is a poet and educator from Chicago. She holds a BA in Writing from Lake Forest College. Currently, she’s an MFA candidate at National University. Emily’s debut chapbook, SHRIVEL + BLOOM, is forthcoming via Dancing Girl Press in spring 2020.  She can be found on Twitter @emilymurman.
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