Maybe Narcissus

Ashley Hudson

Long damp face
of a mountain. That mountain,

weather you can hide behind,
finding your face

in the shapes of clouds,
the sidelong glance of a stone,

falling. The moon is not the moon
when face to face

with the pond. The hailstorm
of your eyes. A petal

a kind of proof
floating between us.

Ashley Elizabeth Hudson is from Athens, Alabama. She was awarded the Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art poetry prize. Her poems appear in Six Little Things and most recently in the Southeast Review.

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Sarah Tourjee
...Bread Alley
...What it Means
Kendra Greene
...Everything, Perfectly, Forever
...Boys’ Bathroom
Patrick Swaney
...Sleepless
...Corrections
...Predictably
Ann Cefola
...Alparegho
Alma Baumwoll
...Polistes
...Ephemeroptera
...Phagocytes
Janis Freegard
...Tattooed ladies
Sarah McBee
...What the Girls Do
...When You Talk About Your Feelings
Eugenio Volpe
...Big
Mike Czagany
...from Fortunatus
Henry Vauban
...A Dotted Line
Colby Somerville
...Rove-vore
...Untitled (“Ich I”)
...Untitled (“the was there a blast”)
William John Bert
...Winner
Ashley Hudson
...Maybe Narcissus
...The Season’s First Complaint
Emma Borges-Scott
...Outage
Naomi Ayala
...In Winter
...Vicissitude / Vision

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