2020 Academy of American Poets Prize

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin

"i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches."

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