L. A. Johnson

L. A. Johnson is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2017). She is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. The winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize, her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Find more at http://www.la-johnson.com.

IN A RAIN OF FLOWERS

L. A. Johnson

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 We are contained in rooms leaking with absence. New recruits to the cult of death, we dress differently, sheathed in black armor. The house stirs.We pace the interior. * The restless sleep of the house keeps us up at night shiftingits wood shingles, never comfortable, it moves to let street […]

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By L. A. Johnson