Thursday, March 8, 2018

day FOUR HUNDRED and THIRTEEN

45

we are
star-spangled
& we are
earning our stripes

& we are
not done yet
& he is
only a number

& he is
learning this.


        -  Rachel Nix

(previously published in Drunk Monkeys)


Rachel Nix is an editor at cahoodaloodaling, Hobo Camp Review and Screen Door Review. She also edited the international anthology America Is Not the World. Her own work has appeared in L'Éphémère Review, Rogue Agent, and Words Dance. She resides in Northwest Alabama, where pine trees outnumber people rather nicely, and can be followed at @rachelnix_poet on Twitter.

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