Rosa and the Flu
Liz Marlow
Buenos Aires, 1918
Sequins—
ocean surface during sunrise—
spread outward,
drench linens,
lace coverup.
Through the desert
she roams without an oasis—
storm in her bones.
Thunder—
like a thief’s knife,
cuts into her chest
as night miscarries
a cloud-covered moon,
wind—becomes all.
Liz Marlow’s debut chapbook, They Become Stars, was the winner of the 2019 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Additionally, her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best Small Fictions, The Idaho Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Minyan Magazine.
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