a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
of the familiar city
made unfamiliar
by its emptying
its shuttered facades
still the yellow houses
the red hibiscus
a raptor perches
on a wire above Elysian Fields
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seen from the third floor
the people on balconies—
a man in a black shirt, his torso severed
by the banister and the stair-
well he descends,
a woman striped with morning sun—
float between the houses
the sun empties its pockets,
tosses down its coins
an invisible bird
screeches and screeches
its warning
Andy Young’s second full-collection, Museum of the Soon Departed, was chosen for the inaugural Patricia Spears Jones Award and will be published by Camperdown NYC next year. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Southern Review, Pank, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Cortland Review. Her poems have also been featured in contemporary and flamenco dance productions.
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