This Week's Showcase: Christien Gholsen

We’re happy to announce Christien Gholson’s forthcoming chapbook, “The No One Poems,” Thirty West Publishing House. Several poems were first published on Leaping Clear!

 
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Christien Gholson

No one knows how to fix this

1.

An arroyo carved by long-gone water
lures me in. Inside: cracked mud, sand,
hare shit, prints of a horned lizard, deer.
There's a driftwood pile where wind
gathered branches: snake-chaos, whips,
Chinese calligraphy disassembled, left here
to create a new script…or make fire.

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