Maryann Corbett is the author of five books of poems, most recently In Code. Her work appears in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, on the sites of the Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry, and in anthologies like The Best American Poetry 2018. She’s had work recently in Berfrois, Exchanges, SWWIM, Think and forthcoming in The MacGuffin.
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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