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My Body as the George Washington Bridge All Lit Up at Midnight

My Body as the George Washington Bridge All Lit Up at Midnight

October 25, 2021 Issue 22, Issue 22 Poetry, Issues, Poetry Recordings

By ALEXANDRA WATSON

The Common Magazine · "My Body as the George Washington Bridge All Lit Up at Midnight" by Alexandra Watson

434 wires unlock the land
double-decked suspension
hot for incandescence
a 14 lane corridor
top exposed
stiffening truss
to come over

limbs sling across the chasm
100 million self propelled cells
carbon hardening soft iron
opens all 29 tolls
bottom enclosed
can’t afford
unanchored

February 2021 Poetry Feature

February 2021 Poetry Feature

February 25, 2021 Poetry

Poems by REBECCA MORGAN FRANK, JEFFREY HARRISON, CALEB NOLEN, and ALEXANDRA WATSON.

Contents:

Rebecca Morgan Frank | I hold with those who favor fire
Jeffrey Harrison | Hazards, 2020
Caleb Nolen | The Deal
| Jonah Years
Alexandra Watson | when the party’s over or, portrait of an addict zero days sober or, my mom sent me this book healing the addicted brain