Beth McDermott is the author of How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press, 2015). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Jet Fuel Review, Matter, Packingtown Review and Tupelo Quarterly. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Cider Press Review and works as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois.
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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