Abstract: Sleep Study – The speaker contemplates a seemingly supernatural coincidence and how it might relate to his lover as well as dream consciousness. Goodbye All That Time – This poem explores the grief that arises from the lost time spent on social media, capturing feelings of regret and the magic woven into digital spaces. Times I Mistook People for Horses – A surreal and comic poem in...
In this lyric essay, the author explores her hypnopompic hallucinations of snakes, scorpions, and other assorted vermin that she began to experience after a cross-country move to Oklahoma. The author considers the connections between the hallucinations, her grief over her brother's suicide, and her geographical displacement from Appalachia, the region that contains her birthplace, her family's...