Winter 2023 | Kelsey Zimmerman Reads "Not Michigan” – MQR Sound
Kelsey Zimmerman reads her poem "Not Michigan" from MQR's Winter 2023 issue.
It took more than a year for the sickness to settle in my gut, star-dense, astro-fury, a bile of thick nectar-rotted longing for cider mills, bike rides along the river, effervescent golden mornings for which there is no curse. It’s quiet here. The horizon hangs in the distance like a string waiting to be plucked. All the fields, all the emptiness— Well, I have enough compunction to fill it. I can see so far down these country roads, their parallels another disease, the next farmhouse a mile away, windmills cutting up the sky.
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