Emily Spencer
HUMAN RESOURCES
In-
numerable pre-
ponderance
gold
filament cresting
the cremation
of joy
1 dae
1 day I’ll be greater
than rain-slicked
parts
as if a mum
orange
glory
an altar
to what would have been
had I been someone else entirely of what would have been if I had been someone else entirely of what would wet wood wet wood and innumerable forest the what where and how now whom tomb the wet wood as if I had been someone else entirely: MUVAH! MUVAAAH!
how perfect, master?
wig askew
from flogging yet perfected
aria
imperfect
EMILY SPENCER is the author of East Walnut Hills, winner of the Zone 3 Press Book Award. Spencer earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is an assistant professor at Miami University.
ISSUE ELEVEN features poetry by José A. Alcántara, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Monica Berlin, Joel Brouwer, Julia Cohen, Timothy Donnelly, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Robert Fernandez, Nick Flynn, Wendy Guerra, Chelsea Harlan, Brian Henry, Harmony Holiday, David Kirby, Ginger Ko, Virginia Konchan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Shane McCrae, Daniel Poppick, Danniel Schoonebeek, Matthew Tuckner, Genya Turovskaya, and Corey Van Landingham; fiction by Josh Bell, Ed Park, and Tom Quach; nonfiction by Albert Abonado, Mary Quade, Sarah Anne Strickley, and Jennifer Tseng; a film essay by J. M. Tyree; and Harmony Holiday in conversation with Sandra Simonds.