\nthe small sound of an old radio, some music, words I
\ndon’t understand, a nostalgic howl with lots of brass
\nand acoustic guitar<\/p>\n
the scene where the car is buried by snow, all the cars
\nare buried in snow, the road just a faint dent<\/p>\n
the phone ringing, going to voice mail, the phone ringing
\nin someone’s jacket pocket, the jacket buried in a pile
\nof jackets at a party<\/p>\n
the rip along your cheek, badly sewn, a scar like a series
\nof faint pale staples, it was a motorcycle, you say,
\nor a drunk ex, you don’t quite remember<\/p>\n
the leather jacket hanging from a hook on a door,
\nthe lining reeks armpit, vanilla perfume, sick cat,
\nthe ripped inside pocket<\/p>\n
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\nbranches, the houses across the street suddenly veiled,
\nthe man scraping with a shovel pauses and shakes off his hat
\n
\nChristine Hamm<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. <\/em> Her poetry has been published in Orbis, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, Dark Sky,<\/em> and many others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. Echo Park<\/em>, her third book of poems, came out from Blazevox this fall. Christine was a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"