1. lightning bolts inside forearms
2. stomach-bloomed orchids
3. undulating chest circuitry
4. bees behind the eyes
5. bruise on the inner thigh
6. word-noose
7. mermaid’s voice
8. ghost hands
9. holes in the mouth
10. the teeth that chewed the holes
11. fingernails & stomach acid
12. heaviness of the breasts
13. technical difficulties
14. pills, but nothing fun
15. smallness

Ellie Black

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Ellie Black is a senior Creative Writing major at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where she serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Aonian literary magazine and holds an internship with the Oxford American. This June, she will attend the 2018 Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. She received first prize in the 2017 Jeanie Dolan Carter Memorial Collegiate Contest, and her work has been published in Moledro Magazine.

Artwork: Christian Schloe, Meditation
Website: https://www.facebook.com/ChristianSchloeDigitalArt/

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