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Sally Delehant Haertl



Sally Delehant Haertl Sally Delehant Haertl is the author of A Real Time of It (The Cultural Society, 2012). Her work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Catch Up: Emerging Writers Issue, Phantom Limb, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, ONandOnScreen and Pinwheel. She lives in Chicago.

Recent Work
After Watching Peggy Olson on Mad Men
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My mom was adopted / and I don’t know // if my biological grandmother / is still alive, but I’m glad // she might not know / that her daughter is…
Flowers at Night
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It’s raining in my room right now. / I mean outside my room it’s raining. / / One time my brother wouldn’t let / someone hurt me when I was…
Polling Report
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To be human is to be the meat— / rare & vicious in each meniscus. / / The eyelid floats a blink’s runoff, bats at / one yipping dog…
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a…
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These structures were not built to bend through Black Friday. / One frenzied angel topples from a spun tree. / We inevitably speak of fallen…
Sun Spreads Out
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Patterns depend / upon rain. / Bright always / ever-beating / the world becomes / a building / becomes a wound. / Confounded / / …
The CTA Asks You to Be a Vigilant Rider
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After the rain a robin hops the sidewalk edge, pulls a worm from the place where pavement meets grass. On this morning I walk in puddles to the…
Paul Cézanne
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kenneled, brown jumper / / chased between trees— / / the river bit the shore. / / sure I thought of me. / / immunized, / / …
Oubliette
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In the knell / we looked for words. / / The knock of a fork— / nothing. / / / / Time tossed intimacy / around the kitchen / …
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