This month we bring you three poems selected from Bottom Feeders by ARIELLE HEBERT, forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

TOC:
—“Elegy for Florida” 
—“Red Tide” 
—“The Dead Layer” 

Elegy for Florida

Almost everything they said about her was true.
Even the bad things.
Especially the bad things.

She began reaching for the water
and never stopped reaching
until she became
an extension of water itself,
her delicate arm just begging
to be snapped off from the panhandle.