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About the Author

Dana Curtis' first full-length collection of poetry, The Body's Response to Famine, won Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Prize. She has also published six chapbooks: Antiviolet (forthcoming from Pudding House Publications), Pyromythology (Finishing Line Press), Twilight Dogs (Pudding House Publications), Incubus/Succubus (West Town Press), Dissolve (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), and Swingset Enthralled (Talent House Press). Her work has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Indiana Review, Colorado Review, and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press.

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v2.4

The Leper Colony

Dana Curtis

Upon arriving, I walk the stones
lining the beach as it crouches, legs
spread, by an ugly sea—I should have cut
it off rather than watch
it rot away—dank
betrayal—sand falls
from a cliff, blurs
into crevasses [ . . . ]

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