Heather Hughes hangs her heart in Somerville and Miami. Poems recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Vinyl Poetry, and other fine journals. She MLA-ed in foreign literature at Harvard University Extension and MFA-ed at Lesley University. Her other adventures include letterpress printing and sci-fi […]
Heather Hughes
Heather Hughes: Asterisk
I am not coming into the thickness of trees; I’m not coming for your body. Slaughtered scenery shut out by blackout curtains. Hazard and home were your specialty, not mine. Mine the ghost: six teardrops sprout from my center. I covet a seed-sepulcher, miniature infinity where my wisp-thin rootlets would wrap, kindly, into your dark […]