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Lea Marshall



Lea Marshall Lea Marshall’s work has appeared in Linebreak, Unsplendid, Hayden’s Ferry Review, B O D Y, Diode Poetry Journal, Thrush Poetry Journal, Broad Street Magazine, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is also Associate Chair of the Department of Dance & Choreography. You can find her chapbook at Dancing Girl Press; she hopes you will write your own poems in it.

Recent Work
This is a week of garlic
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This is a week of garlic, a week / of angled sun, of sapphire. / A gibbous week, a week of headaches, / of late tomatoes. A week of horror, / a…
This is a simple poem
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When you go, I will wash / your body, take your arms / each in mine and know, / now, their weight. Pull / the cool sponge along / your side, lift…
Each Decision Was One Not Made In Time
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Toward the end the springtimes accelerated, / with days crystalline and mad winds and clouds / aching above us as we shouted to each otheracross…
Riddle
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I am the currency of tongues. Imperfect / tool, deadly weapon. Through me you trade / the world for meaning. I stand between lovers / like a sword....
Book XIX
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Old Euryclea carried a broad copper bowl / sang a high song to herself. Her voice came / whispering back from the corners, or perhaps / she had…
Parenting Truths We Never Tire of…
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The search for sleep. / That time slows and speedssimultaneously.Rage. Bodily fluids.From new and terriblevulnerability: strength.That babies and…
Ms. Palin, More Lentils for You?
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Lentil stew, bulgur, kohlrabi – / I invite you over for a vegetarian feast. / We discuss the importance / of the American family. I breastfeed / my…
Aubade
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When the house burned they / could find no photographs / no crisped edges, no smokedeyes or shadowed cheekbones. / Past the bent wire gatebeneath…
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