about other people with their lights on at odd hours— the neighbor who maybe cannot sleep, too, with the TV casting its half-life shadows within a house only partly lit in our town with no street lights, only the flat moon languid in its inability to ever sleep at night, the way worry or […]
Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin’s work has been published in The New York Times, The London Sunday Times, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, JAMA, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, The Rumpus, and Sixth Finch among other places as well as featured on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her debut poetry […]
Emily Franklin: Thoughts Upon Hearing That You, My Former Shrink, Have Died
There was the time my bike shorts and thighs stuck to the chair and I cried because the skin adhered during my 50 minutes, but you thought I was (at last) tearful instead of sitting saying nothing (which of course is not nothing but something). There was the time when I told the story— […]