Prairie L. Markussen lives, writes, and teaches in Daegu, South Korea. Lately of Chicago, IL, she moved to South Korea to teach English to high school students. She received her MFA in poetry from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She loves to travel, and her writing seeks to reflect the stuff she has seen.
Prairie Markussen
Prairie Markussen: From Blackstone Ave.
“Heaviness fell into things that had no weight.” –Ovid [column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] We were in Mecca but we didn’t know it yet. We might have said purgatory or straight up hell, these our streets to prowl. We might not have said prowl; that was a high word. We said strut, we said front, we […]