Ariana Nadia Nash very much enjoys exploring the earth but would always be happier swimming. She has lived in California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Hawaii in the last ten years and plans to live next year in New Mexico. She has travelled to over twenty countries and has never in her life gone more than six months without flying. Read Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, which won the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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