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Rachel Nelson

Rachel Nelson is a Cave Canem fellow and a graduate of the University of Michigan’s MFA program, where she won a Hopwood prize for playwriting. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, the museum of americana, Muzzle Magazine, Pleiades, Thrush, and elsewhere. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Diseases of American Slavery (the desire)

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The desire to find your mother’s hand must be cured A slow day under the sack is a contagion The desire not to melt into fields is an affliction The wish to be still as the sky unfolds into pink dusk means your life is in danger The desire […]

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The desire to find your mother’s hand must be cured A slow day under the sack is a contagion The desire not to melt into fields is an affliction The wish to be still as the sky unfolds into pink dusk means your life is in danger The desire

Diseases of American Slavery (the EARTH)

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The earth will try to reclaim you. It will begin with moss — its fuzzy teeth that soften the side of stone as if making a meal of hard bread. Green unfurled on your skin like a rash of tobacco covers a field. —A softly splotched compass slying across

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 The earth will try to reclaim you. It will begin with moss — its fuzzy teeth that soften the side of stone as if making a meal of hard bread. Green unfurled on your skin like a rash of tobacco covers a field. —A softly splotched compass slying across

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