how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster —W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts” It takes seconds to drown, but we’re not there yet. First count how many seconds to blind my eyes, wrenched hydrants in the hay in the barn. Hundreds. More before wrecking our […]
Emily Kingery
Emily Kingery’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, and she has been a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She serves on the Board of Directors at the Midwest Writing Center, a non-profit organization that supports writers in the Quad Cities community (mwcqc.org).