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Mar/Apr 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 2 • Poetry |

On the Road

By Erika Meitner

We are trying to get pregnant
so everything makes me weep:

the amorphous metal sculpture
shaped like a tree on fire

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Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk (BOA Editions, 2022) and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which was the winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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