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    • Staff
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    • Issue 5 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Stephanie Bryant Anderson & Andrea Spofford
      • Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
      • Rob Carney
      • William Fargason
      • Raye Hendrix
      • Jude Marr
      • Iliana Rocha
      • Gale Marie Thompson
      • Derek JG Williams
      • Emily Paige Wilson
      • "Why do you love poetry?"
    • Issue 4 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Emma Bolden
      • Jess Feldman
      • Maggie Graber
      • Emily Lake Hansen
      • Sonja Johanson
      • Kelsey Ann Kerr
      • Josh Myers
      • Christina Olson
      • Ashley Roach-Freiman
      • Ephraim Scott Sommers
      • Interview with P. Scott Cunningham
    • Issue 3 >
      • Letter from the Editors
      • Anne Champion
      • Jeremy Hawkins
      • Matthew Henriksen
      • Ashley Mares
      • Emmet Martin Penney
      • Liz Robbins
      • Anna Sandy
      • Terell Jamal Terry
      • Dillon J. Welch
      • Jacqui Zeng
      • Interview with Erin Belieu
    • Issue 2 >
      • Letter From the Editors
      • Brandon Amico
      • Ruth Awad
      • Rosebud Ben-Oni
      • Caroline Cabrera
      • Dorothy Chan
      • Adam Crittenden
      • Megan Leonard
      • Paige Lewis
      • Nathan Parker
      • Meghan Privitello
      • Interview with Kaveh Akbar
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      • Letter from the Editors
      • Monica Prince
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      • Letter From the Editors
      • Dan Albergotti
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      • Heather Derr-Smith
      • Meg Freitag
      • James Kimbrell
      • Madison McCartha
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      • Maggie Woodward
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Maggie Woodward


GIRL WORK


                     in the bottom of my gut is a bowl full of hair. in the back of
                     my garden, your bones. one-by-one I open every book on the shelf &
                     each page that I turn to says RUN, GIRL. I don’t think it means
                     what I think it means. little bullet, I buried you for a reason. little
                     deathbone, I buried you so that I wouldn’t starve. when I buried
                     you, the house was on fire. all that digging brought a glow to my
                     cheeks. little dogtooth, you need to stay where you’re planted. I like
                     ​the way you’ve gotten rid of the sun.

Maggie Woodward is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi, where she is senior editor of the Yalobusha Review, curates the Trobar Ric Reading Series, and is a programmer for the Oxford Film Festival. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Axolotl Magazine, inferior planets, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Atlas Review, and Devil's Lake, among others. You can find her online at maggie-woodward.com.
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