Leah Umansky
Hard
It is hard to quiet the blackberrying pain.
The little chronicles, the streaks, and the intimate workings.
I will face this by red-winging my truths.
I will push my blues into orchids.
Leah Umansky is the author, most recently of the dystopian-themed chapbook, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press 2016). She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator of the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry, Faerie Magazine, Boston Review and Posit. She is #teamkhaleesi http://www.LeahUmansky.com
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It is hard to quiet the blackberrying pain.
The little chronicles, the streaks, and the intimate workings.
I will face this by red-winging my truths.
I will push my blues into orchids.
Leah Umansky is the author, most recently of the dystopian-themed chapbook, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press 2016). She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator of the COUPLET Reading Series in NYC, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Poetry, Faerie Magazine, Boston Review and Posit. She is #teamkhaleesi http://www.LeahUmansky.com
Return to November 2016 Edition