Out-take As a Sonnet of War
The severed deer leg said red, as if red were something to be said. My head fell off and rolled over the mossy embankment. I followed, my neck austere and cold and salmonberry-covered, running with…
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Maya Jewell Zeller is the author, most recently, of out takes/glove box (fall 2023), chosen by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize. Maya’s memoir manuscript, Raised by Ferns, was runner up in the AWP Sue Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Maya is Associate Professor at Central Washington University, and Affiliate Faculty in Poetry and Nature Writing in low-residency MFA at Western Colorado University.
The severed deer leg said red, as if red were something to be said. My head fell off and rolled over the mossy embankment. I followed, my neck austere and cold and salmonberry-covered, running with…