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Elizabeth Scanlon

Elizabeth Scanlon: Clarion Canticle

June 12, 2014 by PBQ

Christmas came around the corner like a thug, it wanted my wallet or heart and didn’t care which. The trickling down my ribs reminded me of dear blond Lynch saying titsweat is the worst, and the wet wool at my pits made me feel bad for the sheep, who never imagined itself dyed crimson and […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Issue 89, Poetry, Poetry 89 Tagged With: Contributors 89, Elizabeth Scanlon, Poetry, Poetry 89

Elizabeth Scanlon

June 9, 2014 by PBQ

Elizabeth Scanlon is an editor of The American Poetry Review. Her chapbook Odd Regard is available from ixnay press.

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Issue 89 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 89, Elizabeth Scanlon

Elizabeth Scanlon: Wildlife Documentary

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Livid with this life, she is awake, two years old and too much to be contained in bed and dreams. Quick text of change, the psych book says she won’t remember any of it — no matter how idyllic, it’s too traumatic: the maturation process is utter. Her fierce cognition mercifully lost, it is said, […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, Elizabeth Scanlon, Poetry, Poetry 67

Elizabeth Scanlon: Home Suite

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

I. The wash of stroller wheels reveals the sidewalk’s return to sand. One pushes another forward into an uncertain future— mama baby buggy bumper – our origins on parade, this moment of longing that compels many to do much, make more. The pusher strides forth with her antenna, an extension of herself , believing this […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Elizabeth Scanlon, Poetry, Poetry 68

Elizabeth Scanlon: Passerby

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. – Walt Whitman The stone walls of Pennsylvania, mossed grays veined with dim tinsel, whip by the car window, rows of Wissahickon schist skirt the fields, stop short where roads cut in and […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Elizabeth Scanlon, Poetry, Poetry 68

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