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Member since June 29, 2009 | 1,405 Readings |

Sara Guest

Sara Guest lives in Portland Ore. She writes poetry and fiction, works for a local writing nonprofit (www.writearound.org). Finally, after years of trying, she has a daily writing practice. Her work has appeared recently in Sir! and New Orleans Review.

Recent Work

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Tell me deals / your blood's made / while I record it here. / / The day after, I could have coughed up / your blood. It was tangling with...

Third Anniversary

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What's lighter than now? / / Your shadow close to the lighthouse / the green rocks / the green rocks / the shell / the pink insides / the...

Anecdote of Heat

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I set a jar of Peking Duck / off the train in Nashville heat. / I scarcely know if jar is jar / but heat is heat. / / I sit in its dominion. /...

Song for Valedictorians

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Astrid looks away when it's time to give her name. But not today. Today she shouts out, / / I want to name myself winged-ornament. I want to name...

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Were the weights heavy on you / heavy as mine? / You thought they were, saying / press my heartache into you, saying / love like mine can't hurt...

Talk Over the Grave

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Where have you been? / Dropping socks in the river. / / Where have you been? / In a pantry of cream. / / Why do you cry? / Thinking of...

Subscribed by Sara Guest

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I go to visit my parents / and the rain never stops. / We sit inside all day, / my mother flipping through Vogue, / licking a finger to snap ...

Everything That’s Alive Stays That Way

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The war was everywhere, / not just in the desert / where we expected it to be. / One night I heard the war in the wall / behind my...

[I eat chocolate and look at the clouds...

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I eat chocolate and look at the clouds from bed, awaiting / terrible volume. I dream what stabs and curses me is / suddenly beautiful sprinting...

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