in the middle of a very long,
high road we never see
the end of–my throat
falls right out of my body.
A moth’s wings before
the dust knocked off.
Meg Wade is the University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing Institute 2014-2015 Diane Middlebook Poetry Fellow. Born and raised in the hills of East Tennessee, she has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, is a former Poetry Editor for Sonora Review, and is currently Assistant Editor for an anthology of contemporary, rural American poetry titled Hick Poetics, forthcoming from Lost Roads Press. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in CutBank, The Feminist Wire, and Phantom Limb, among other publications.