Meri Culp has been published in various literary journals, including the Southeast Review, Apalachee Quarterly, BOMB, Nomads, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Snug, The Northeast Chronicle, Cider House Review, and online in True/Slant and USA Today. Her poems have also appeared in two anthologies: North of Wakulla and Think: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat. She is currently working on a collection of stalk […]
Meri Culp
Meri Culp: Stalker
Keep your steely-eyed offerings, your garden pretense, botanical bliss, your reedy wisp of asparagus, no longer green-speared, but gray-leaden. Hold in check your artichoke words, the petal pull of anger-dipped butter, core-covering the heart of new spring, my palmed heart, still tender, still looking for unsullied celery, small boats of clean, green sea washing to […]