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                <header><h1>Poetry</h1></header>
<article>
  <h2>Flock</h2>
  <p>Published in <a href="http://www.stoneboatwi.com/9-2.html"><em>Stoneboat</em></a>, spring 2019, issue 9.2.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p><em>Those birds were metaphors</em>, and these birds are comma splices, these birds are sonnets...</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Letter to C.</h2>
  <p>Published in <a href="http://antiphon.org.uk/wordpress/?p=846"><em>Antiphon</em></a>, Spring 2019, issue 24. Includes a recording!</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>We don't recognize each other in this foreign place, the future.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<!--<article>
  <h2>Applesham Road</h2>
  <p>Forthcoming in <em>The Feast</em>.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>The kitchen here faces west.<br/> I had not expected that, would not have known what it meant,<br/> and find it oddly pleasing&mdash;an Easter egg,<br/> gaudy and hard-boiled, stumbled over in an nest no one can remember building.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>-->
<article>
  <h2>This is What I Said in My Dream About You</h2>
  <p>Published in <a href="http://www.snapdragonjournal.com/store/p25/%22Remember%2C%22_Fall_2017_issue%2C_3.3.html"><em>Snapdragon</em></a>, Fall 2017, issue 3.3.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p><em>I don't really blame you for being dead, but you can't have your sweater back</em>, you don't remember how cold it is up here where we breathe and cough and talk...</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Poem from Exile</h2>
  <p>Published in <em><a href="https://issuu.com/blackfoxlit/docs/bflm_issue__16_final_draft_issuu_ve">Black Fox Literary Magazine</a></em>, Summer 2017, issue 16.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>The lilacs here, on this new street, are bleached, wispy things.
    </p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Library</h2>
  <p>Published in <em><a href="https://issuu.com/blackfoxlit/docs/bflm_issue__16_final_draft_issuu_ve">Black Fox Literary Magazine</a></em>, Summer 2017, issue 16.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>You are the only story I know:<br/>once upon a collarbone</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Afterwards</h2>
  <p>Published in <a href="http://www.semopress.com/caperock"><em>The Cape Rock</em></a>, spring 2017, volume 45, issue 1.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>The words crumble away like dead leaves.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Daughter</h2>
  <p>Published in the <em><a href="http://amzn.to/2hD1QIO">Theories of HER</a></em> anthology, Mercurial Noodle Press, December 2016.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>I've got her eyes,<br /> I stole them as my birthright.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>CST</h2>
  <p>Published in the <em><a href="http://amzn.to/2hD1QIO">Theories of HER</a></em> anthology, Mercurial Noodle Press, December 2016.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>She’s always late. Carries a clock <br /> in her tongue<br /> that stops on initial consonants.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Transformation</h2>
  <p>Published in the March 2016 issue of the <em><a href="http://www.londonjournaloffiction.com/poems-march/transformation">London Journal of Fiction</a></em>. <a href="http://www.londonjournaloffiction.com/blog/2016/6/21/issue-two-contributors">Reprinted</a>,
    summer 2016.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>There's a man who sleeps<br /> outside the subway, who's claimed<br /> the gap between the stairs and the newsstand.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>When Flesh Is The Winding Sheet</h2>
  <p>Published in the Winter 2015 issue of <em><a href="http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/11/issue-6/">Crab Fat Magazine</a></em>. Nominated for the 2015 <a href="http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/11/pushcart-prize-nominations-2015/">Pushcart Prize</a>, <a href="http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/11/bettering-american-poetry-2015-nominees/">Bettering American Poetry 2015</a>,
    and <a href="http://crabfatmagazine.com/2016/07/best-of-the-net-2016-nominees/">Best of the Net 2016</a>. Reprinted in <a href="http://damagedgoodspress.com/product/crab-fat-magazine-best-of-year-two/">Best of Year Two</a>.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>Something in the kitchen catches fire<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and a city starts to burn. That's what happens<br /> and I'm not sorry.
      <p>
  </blockquote>
  <p></p>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>Ars Medica</h2>
  <p>Published in the Autumn 2015 issue of <em><a href="http://www.tulereview.com/">Tule Review</a></em>.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>She finds a lump,
      <br/> one morning in the shower,
      <br /> and when the doctor tells us
      <br /> it's nothing...</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p></p>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>This Is What I Said in My Dream About You</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.thegamblermag.com/elizabeth-yalkut/">September 2015 issue of <em>The Gambler</em></a>.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p><em>I don't really blame you for being dead, but you can't have your sweater back</em>, you don't remember how cold it is up here where we breathe and cough and talk, so you can't have your sweater back until it stops smelling like you, like your
      shampoo and your kitchen and your dog...</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<article>
  <h2>DSM 300.4</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://pinehillsreview.strose.edu/elizabethyalkut/">fall 2015 issue of <em>Pine Hills Review</em></a>.</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>Landscape.</p>
    <p>A place where I arrive.</p>
    <p>Travel inwards: it stretches out&mdash;</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Dysthymia</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://lunchticket.org/dysthymia/">Winter/Spring 2015 issue of <em>Lunch Ticket</em></a>. Nominated for the 2015 Best of the Net Awards.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>There are days I have been cast
      <br /> (down) in bronze.
      <br /> Gloom pervades me like patina.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Aurore</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="https://readpapernautilus.blogspot.com/2014/12/paper-nautilus-2014-issue.html">2014 issue of <em>paper nautilus</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>Long before light has flushed
      <br /> violet across my eyelids,
      <br /> you rise,
      <br /> press your fingertip under the point of my jawline;
      <br /> I wake to lipstick
      <br /> still blood-dark on my cheekbone.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Letters Home</h2>
  <p>is <a href="https://s.codepen.io/elizabethyalkut/debug/vjABF">available</a> under the <a href="http://freeculture.org/about/license/">Decolonial Media License</a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>There are first kisses scattered here, like the dandelions behind the chapel.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Momos</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.sprylit.com/poetry/momos/">April 2014 issue of <em>Spry</em></a>. <a href="http://www.sprylit.com/2014-best-net-nominations/">Nominated</a> for the 2014 Best of the Net anthology.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>She tells me in the only way she can,
      <br /> hands me her heart,
      <br /> dough pleated tidy under her fingers,
      <br /> seam curved snug against my palm.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>mermaid</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://eastjasminereview.com/issues/issues/volume-1-issue-3/">November 2013 issue of <em>East Jasmine Review</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>There are mermaids in the Hudson. Well, mermaid, at any rate —</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Cartography</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.foliateoak.com/elizabeth-yalkut.html">April 2013 issue of <em>Foliate Oak</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>Your skin snagged on mine,
      <br /> darlingest, is the appropriate distance.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Confession</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.foliateoak.com/elizabeth-yalkut.html">April 2013 issue of <em>Foliate Oak</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>I built her skeleton in my imaginarium.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Elegy</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.foliateoak.com/elizabeth-yalkut.html">April 2013 issue of <em>Foliate Oak</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>I have been trying to write
      <br /> an elegy
      <br /> for my grandfather.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>Dowry</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://theodate.org/elizabeth-yalkut/">Fall 2012 issue of <em>Theodate</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>I tell you
      <br /> I am searching for poetry
      <br /> for you. That I have not found it.
      <br /> That I am horribly, horribly afraid that I will have to write it.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>

<article>
  <h2>View From a City</h2>
  <p>Published in the <a href="http://www.bluestemmagazine.com/?p=1450">March 2012 issue of <em>Bluestem Quarterly</em></a>.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>We make our own stars, these days —
      <br /> we have to.</p>
  </blockquote>
</article>
<footer><p>All poetry is &copy; Elizabeth Yalkut.</p>
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