Liz Robbins‘ third collection, Freaked, won the 2014 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award, judged by Bruce Bond; her poems are in recent issues of American Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, and River Styx. She’s an associate professor of creative writing at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.
Winter 2014
[the crab]; [the ram]
[the crab]
elaine, let me speak of the sign under which my folks were born,
the miraculous blue death we're sure to carry in our female parts
as we were chosen