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Burnt Orange


Several crimes against myself,
lit up from inside. I glare at the supermarket
until it darkens. Until a piece of produce exhales,
a rodent in my palm.
Is alienation a copy, an intrusion?
Moreover the light deepens,
moreover I flee the contours of our bedroom.
You’re grading papers at the cafe and I bring the shelf of my mouth to you.


The fat afternoon light sits on my heart.











Kimberly Lambright's second poetry collection, Doom Glove, was published in September 2024 from PRROBLEM Press. She is also the author of Ultra-Cabin, winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow, and her poetry appears in Phoebe, Columbia Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Bone Bouquet, The Burnside Review and elsewhere.

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