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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
Last Acts, When You Know
Lea Marshall
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stop counting / fill the car with dirt / make way / say no / cut the handles of plastic bags / finally kiss / plant bulbs / take off the dog’s…
Ergo Sum
Lea Marshall
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I used to set pennies on the train tracks past my grandmother’s / house even after someone told me this could derail the train. / My daughter…
On Roasting
Lea Marshall
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Hefting a chicken and holding a string, / your voice returns to me unbidden: / “Please,” against my neck that long, slick / afternoon. I shut out…
This is a week of garlic
Lea Marshall
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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
Lea Marshall
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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
Lea Marshall
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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
Lea Marshall
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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
Lea Marshall
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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…
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