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About Sarah Nance
Sarah Nance is an Assistant Professor of English and holds a PhD from UCLA. Her scholarly work focuses on contemporary poetry, temporality, and illness. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Faultline, and Muse/A. She writes, teaches, and walks her dog in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, CO.
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Honey Rivas smokes cigarillos delicate
burning olive branches
living in her bruised hands dying
in her angry lungs
Mine trauma like coal.
In the still, gray water my life is born in figurines. My right foot forever bears a stigmata from the accident—The streetcar—not Diego.My heartlines, my left side, bear his scar. But no children. Blood flows from my womb, painting the…