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Michele K. Johnson

Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation: Main House

She will say, now it is time to make the hard­tack biscuits. Now, the fresh apple cider.
Flies and gnats lovingly wrestle in the pulpy juice. She says
they drank it, grubs and all. Now, see--

             making oneself at home is a figure of speech that means filling in

I volunteered and tried on the apron and you pulled my waist into you from behind,
pressing the knots into my back.




Michele K. Johnson will receive her MFA in Poetry in May 2014 from George Mason University, where she also teaches Creative Writing, Literature, and Composition. It has been her pleasure for the past year to serve as Editor in Chief of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art, which led her to be featured on a panel about journals that work toward social justice at this past AWP convention. Her work can be found in the Ucity Review, OVS Magazine, the Ampersand Review, and elsewhere. 




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