Kansas Animalia
I curtsy to the prairie turtle, running with all its might to catch the paint line of a country...
Read MoreAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award; At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Lucky Fish (2011). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, FIELD, and American Poetry Review. Her honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia and lives in berry country in western New York with her husband and sons.
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I curtsy to the prairie turtle, running with all its might to catch the paint line of a country...
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Before a globe is pressed into a sphere, the shape of the paper is an asterisk. This planet...
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And when the farmer saw the giant flower with smell like bad fish and bad sugar, he...
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St. Lucia I am a very different wife. Sulfur & ash fill my nose until both nostrils are...
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