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Maya Catherine Popa

Maya Catherine Popa‘s poems and criticism appear or are forthcoming from FIELD, Poetry London, PN Review, Colorado Review, Oxford Poetry, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers in New York City and the Literary Editor of All Hollow Magazine. She recently completed an MSt from Oxford University under a Clarendon Scholarship, and will soon complete her MFA from NYU. Visit her on the Web at www.mayacpopa.com

Spring 2014

Sinaia, Romania

By Maya Catherine Popa

Corridors of calves      cataract of mountains

lands pulled up by the navel      then abandoned

they say         by a dry
god      on the occasion of a drink.