Jasmine rice of my house the pink of my breath the bone of my book I buffed every mushroom for my girl yes fellas I’ve done it I can make what I want here Underneath grass a coating of the earth a layer beneath Is another fact one where we remember the letters But forget […]
Lauren Hilger
Lauren Hilger is the author of Morality Play (Poetry NW Editions, 2022). Named a Nadya Aisenberg Fellow in poetry from MacDowell, she has also received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Foundation’s online archive, NEA’s Poetry Out Loud, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens.