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Elizabeth Onusko

Elizabeth Onusko received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Fordham University. She is the managing editor of Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics (GuernicaMag.com). Her work has appeared in Poetry East and is forthcoming in the Briar Cliff Review and Coal Hill Review.

Purgatory

29 June 2009
Vol. 9, No. 2
poetry

Now I understand why. Someone turns loose the winds on me

and I'm a fountain of fire, someone tosses me into the sea

and I float in a boat of flames, someone pushes me under

and my lungs implode like hydrogen blimps. Every bronchiole burns…