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Sara Guest



Sara Guest Sara Guest lives in Portland, Ore. She is a nonprofit messaging strategist, a volunteer writing facilitator for Write Around Portland, a Delve guide for Literary Arts and a board member for Octopus Books. She’s currently writing exclusively about race.

Recent Work
Worthscipe
Sara Guest
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I am whaling away at myself under the welcome desk and stealing jewelry from the plastic case. Fondling it like live dimes. Plunging the clicker as…
I am Adam Lanza’s Mother
Sara Guest
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1,044 views
When I am the tragedy that has forgotten its name / When my tongue no longer sees / There are sharp teeth that could take it hostage / When the…
I Found Fire in Those Flames
Sara Guest
(1)
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In that period / I didn’t have milk on my cereal / And I didn’t have cereal / / My wheels were turning slowly / In the other direction / / …
Koan Two
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One tree waves at the forest floor without the wind. The pine trees are wax statues of each other. Forethought heaps up inside me until a leather…
Upgulch, Hail
Sara Guest
(1)
745 views
You were never lazy with your shoulders. When you lay down in the charred clover you knew nothing of what you gave away. That gull in the sky…
Canyon as Chimney
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(1)
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Sing me the lullaby of a tether. A gorilla comes out of the cheat grass with his hands full. Bees into hail. I press my heart into your heart until…
The antlers are rougher than the seam
Sara Guest
(4)
796 views
This wasn’t always the kind of place / a hunter would lay aside his pulse-thin / deer rifle for you – offer you a ride from / the mouth…
Critic as Spinning Jenny
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Hogs don’t think much. They get down on every root they find. Sometimes the garden pelts her splinters and sometimes they just fall. A runner goes…
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