Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is the author of the poetry collection Inked, winner of the 2014 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2015). She has been awarded an AWP Intro Journals Award in poetry, as well as a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and her poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and The Southern Review. Find her online at https://www.corinnamcclanahanschroeder.com/.
The flowers of lion’s teeth withered. We blew and they lifted. White globes barely held together, holding, then exploding. In hand, wind-downed sticks were scepters. Clover knotted into coronation crowns. All of this according to the order of afternoon and our hair still blonde. Under the oaks in the root-throned dim, summer tipped like a […]
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