: is concentric :
: rakes sand to remove pine needles :
: believes in the impersonal :
: melts ice left in the glass :
: sees story arc in oceans :
: writes down what’s eaten :
: differentiates :
: mistakes highway tire treads for dead crows :
: grows in sand :
: chalks a nightstand with aspirin :
: can reply, “The tumbleweed barbs the rumble strip hills” :
: is damp :
: thinks the heart has a smell :
: believes the deer will migrate through the deer underpass and live into the other side :
: is a member :
: will argue, “Mushrooms and stones are currency.” :
: slips :
: collects green bottles to empty them :
: can’t see her full body when looking directly :
: is why :
: believes the river has a beginning :
: will pay for it
Alexandra Mattraw’s first chapbook, Projection, is available at Achiote Press, and her second chapbook, in the way of harbors, is forthcoming at Dancing Girl Press. A former Vermont Studio Center resident, her poems and reviews have also appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Verse, Word For/Word, VOLT, and American Letters and Commentary. Alexandra’s full manuscript was a finalist at both Nightboat Books (2009) and 1913 Press (2011). She runs a reading and art salon series in San Francisco called Lone Glen.
Alexandra Mattraw’s first chapbook, Projection, is available at Achiote Press, and her second chapbook, in the way of harbors, is forthcoming at Dancing Girl Press. A former Vermont Studio Center resident, her poems and reviews have also appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Verse, Word For/Word, VOLT, and American Letters and Commentary. Alexandra’s full manuscript was a finalist at both Nightboat Books (2009) and 1913 Press (2011). She runs a reading and art salon series in San Francisco called Lone Glen.