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Laura Sobbott Ross

Laura Sobbott Ross

August 31, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Laura Sobbott Ross teaches English to ESOL students at Lake Technical College in central Florida, and has worked as a writing coach for Lake County Schools. Her writing appears in Blackbird, Meridian, The Florida Review, Calyx, Natural Bridge, and many others. She was s named as a finalist for the Arts & Letters Poetry Prize […]

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Laura Sobbott Ross: The Walrus in the Tea Leaves

August 25, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

For Doug Darling, it wasn’t the news you’d expected. And when you told me about it, I’d giggled, conjured images of broken symmetries— kaleidoscope and compass, magnetic poles and mirrors gone random. I knew what you were hoping for, how you’d tilted your throat back and swallowed down the void. The psychic parsing through the […]

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Laura Sobbott Ross: Déjà Vu

August 25, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

—1979 There has to be darkness and a highway. Beyond the shoulders of the road, a topography, splayed and lit in street lamps. You’re seventeen, and Hotel California is playing on the radio. If you look close enough, you can see the silhouette of mountains beyond your own reflection in the car window. To the […]

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Laura Sobbott Ross: Bora, Bora

August 25, 2017 by PBQ Leave a Comment

1996 A shaft of blue splintered into a thousand nuances, shed them into the sea beneath our tiki hut— wedged on stilts into hunger clouds of shimmery fish, oysters lipping black pearls. We married there, on the shore between the neon chakra of sky & water, a handful of drowsy natives shaking New Year’s Eve […]

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