Alicia Mountain: The Whole Water-faced Aquarium
for C.D. Wright
Body exalt. Ozarks exalt. Judge and court reporter and shorthand exalt. Salt the ice where the grave-pull hits you. The porch hammer guard-dogs what we’ve got, champagne taste and high life money. White girls fuck white girls without drawing the blinds. Sometimes light bulbs fall asleep, too. There is no sell by date on mourning.
ALICIA MOUNTAIN received her MFA at the University of Montana
in Missoula, where she teaches creative
writing to incarcerated youth with the program Free Verse. Her work has been published
or is forthcoming in Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades,
Witness, Zone 3, LIT, and elsewhere.
She won a 2014 Academy of American Poets College Prize and was a 2015 Idyllwild
Fellow. Her unpublished full-length manuscript was a semi-finalist for the 2015 St.
Lawrence Book Award. She will begin PhD studies at the University of Denver in the
fall of 2016. More from this
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