Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven poetry collections, including American Samizdat (Diode Editions, 2019), as well as a book of creative nonfiction, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press, 2019).
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Fairy Tale with Laryngitis and Resignation Letter
You remember the mermaid makes a deal,
her tongue evicted from her throat,
and moving is a knife-cut with every step.
This is what escape from water means.
Dear Colleagues, you write, for weeks
I’ve been typing this letter in the bright
kingdom of my imagination....