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Sandy Longhorn

Sandy Longhorn's work currently appears or is forthcoming in Boulevard, Hotel Amerika, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, Blood Almanac, was a semi-finalist for the Bakeless Literary Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award. She currently teaches composition and literature at the University of Arkansas Monticello and can be reached at sandysandy28@yahoo.com.

Word Cycle #2: Meditations

2 June 2004
Vol. 4, No. 2
poetry, prose poem

There is a quick breath after the accidental cut and before the blood wells up, pain red as a poppy, the body a font unto itself. Thinking too hard on biology, anatomy, the course of history, I am amazed I stand here breathing. Where is the invisible, intricate clasp of my undoing?