Poems from Arden Ashley

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A Pacific Northwest writer and visual artist attending Washington State University.
Fried black bananas   white sweet goat cheese   thick pale and yellowing like an old wound   Shiny crinkled scabbing edging the the grill-...
We are seventeen and we're having a midlife crisis.   We were kids once, but that was then and this is   Now, and the nurturing soil over...
When you happen to find yourself  underneath the hold, of the punching vaccuum of, deep space. My terrified daughter, hold your breath...
I am from arable land From tall scratching grass and hum of electric cattle wire I am from stolen sweetpeas and muddy carrots, slipped...
When you find yourself, as I did, in the center of a large vulture’s nest, roughly hectagonally shaped, and moreso, If you are surrounded...

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