Why We All Have Typhoid

Elizabeth Witte

We’ve roses
on our
chests in
the décolletage

tiny buds in
the sweat beneath
white cotton
like red lilies

mark Mary’s
dress
the way
we all are

a cause of
death rubbing
under
our eyelids

Elizabeth Witte lives/works in and around Somerville, Massachusetts. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Shampoo, Glitter Pony, and LIES/ISLE.

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Joanna Howard
...Arresting Yarn
Matthew Suss
...from Suicide Mountain
Rich Ives
...Seth Johnson's Alabama Confessional, 1964
...Elegy for One More Creature Gone from Our Small Sea
Scott Carpenter
...Riddles
Tom Barlow
...Not All Love Smells Like Roses
Dan Wuenschel
...Leviathan
...My Nose Was Blinded By the Language of Color Poetry
Patrick Haas
...fugue
Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
...Del Amor Al Odio
Mark Baumer
...parts of our bodies were still capable of heartbeats
Elizabeth Witte
...This Is Then There Are
...The Importance of Objects
...Why We All Have Typhoid
...Armed Introduction
Anne Germanacos
...Silk
Jamie Iredell
...who we are and where we're from and wherefore this exists
Joseph Mains
...POMODE
Chanda J. Grubbs
...Adolf
...Mermaid

Why We All Have Typhoid

Elizabeth Witte

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