Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Verse
Daily, Plume, Rattle, Diode, Nashville Review, Cleaver, Hobart, Wide
Awake: Poets of Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Her photos are published
worldwide. She’s the author of four books of poetry, including Junkie
Wife (2018). A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis
is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.
Anna As War Zone (a sister poem)
My sister is a cargo plane of Hail Mary’s, Anna, the war zone she circles. Her ravaged daughter won’t let her land, tells her to bail, find some other junkie to save. Fuck off, Anna warns her mother, swears she’s clean, then nods off while driving for Lyft. Four car accidents in as many weeks […]
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