UNDERSONG 5 4 3 2 1
I will give you whispers
ripe from a branch –
UNDERNEATH 5 4 3 2 1
The coldness in my bones
has not left (since I was ten).
UNDERSCORED 5 4 3 2 1
Growing up, I worked in a larder,
serving oranges bitter to the taste.
UNDERCURRENTS 5 4 3 2 1
I remember when I mugged a man,
tears coupled with the evening sky,
eyes the color of rain – tap, tap, tap.
UNDERSTATEMENT 5 4 3 2 1
They remember me
as a series of sounds.
UNDERPRIVILEGED 5 4 3 2 1
To see the world, a muddled
beauty, I taped my eyelids open.
Total Point(s) _______ / 30
Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from Chapter House, ZYZZYVA, Hollins Critic, Oxford Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
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